1. Do not burn myself
Better to get soaked in water. Better to be dirtied in soil.
Do not foolishly let your heart be taken up by pointless things.
If it gets wet, you dry it. If it gets dirty, you shake it off. That is all.
2. Thirty-one, the limits of objective possibility
The limits of one left behind in the homeland.
These are the facts of my reality.
Only — I don't know from what point I stopped trying to widen my possibilities and the range of my choices.
From some moment on, choosing grew hard, and I began to avoid it, and I began to wish someone else would decide for me.
That is how I was getting older.
3. Don't forget.
The point is to make my own thoughts happen.
But I recognized my circumstances and ability, and as a result I gave up being the owner, gave up possessing.
Here, is the question I'm turning over right now the right question for this situation?
Am I taking others' worries as my own, or generalizing and rationalizing their values or field of view or judgment as though they were mine, as though this were my situation?
Am I withholding my own judgment and trying to avoid responsibility, or taking the easy choice by getting their agreement to back me up?
