Virtues, defects and gifts....
It is well known all of us have virtues, defects and gifts. We need them in order to interact with others. Sometimes, some of us, forget we have them and act in ways that may not be the best or correct ones, but we need to remind ourselves we are humans therefore we make mistakes.
This afternoon I received some sad news, there is this person I know who is a music teacher and he sings, he actually can sing in a beautiful way and he was diagnosed with lung cancer.
The reason I'm writing this blog is because he was devasted with the news and said a line that got stuck in my head, "I don´t have other gifts, music and singing mean all to me", and, this made me think, do we actually know what gifts we posses? do we appreacite them or exploit them? I tried to encourage him to discover new gifts tokeep his mind busy and offered my help for it; then I thought what gifts that I don't have I would love to have?....Singing,I would love to have a beautiful voice and sing professionally or just for the pleasure of sounding good when I sing... because it is not my case
I can mention virtues: patience, kidness, humility, courage, benevolance, caring, charity, love, compassion, confidence etc...I don't have all the virtues that exist and I have defects and gifts, I am compassionate, I get grumpy easily and would love to be have a great voice so I could sing for others to enjoy my voice.
Have you ever wanted a gift/talent you don't have? Which is your favorite virtue and worse defect in a person?
Mine: I love temperance, I dislike arrogance and would love to sing
Comments (11)
I embrace other people's defects as the worse they are, the better they make me feel better about my own.
Waf I agree with you good ones
Waf I agree with you good ones
He's just hurting right now with the bad news. I have a special friend that I worked for in Colorado. She came down with Lupus and she thought her life had ended. It didn't. It made her stronger. Tell your friend to keep asking the doctor how to keep singing and I'll bet the doctor will tell him when he's better give it a try. And he will still be able to sing!
I don't have any gifts that I can thing of, I am short in temperance because I do not think it is evil to drink alcohol (except with excess), and I have a tendency to be arrogant at times. In my old age I am catching myself and practicing humility more often!
the best gift...THats all I wanted to say. But if you want to sing...any one can do it! You just need a few lessons or if you dont want lessons just a dvd that will have excersices on it. If you have a bit of an ''ear for music'' it iwll be quite easy. :)
I have a music store and play a few instruments and even sing in the shower somtimes..haha...anyway GO FOR IT!!