Oh yeah...

A while ago I was wondering about the nature of caring. http://stellabasium.blogspot.com/2007/09/why.html
It was hard for me to think about what it means to "care" and how emotions play into it. (Is "care" dependent upon how I feel, or upon what I choose?)

Feelings are important. They're kinda like a window into a person's soul that reveals what is really there. In order to be a good human, it is probably good to pay attention to whats going on in the emotional realm, acting on them if they point to something that is true and valuable, and if not, dealing with them appropriately.

However, while being very real, emotions are temporary and not always true. In fact, they are often very deceptive.

To care is to make a choice about what is going to be important.

I'm super happy that God exists. I'm happy that even though I often feel lost and think that the world is much too big of a place for me, God has given me everything I need. He's told me what kinds of things are worth caring about and how to do it.

I had a teacher sum it up nicely. One dramatic day my freshman year, when our teen-age emotional tension was at an all-time high, Mr. Falkowski simplified the essence of valuable priorities by saying, "Things don't matter. People do." "Things" in this situation didn't just refer to tangible items that people idolize. They were the ideas we had about the way things should be, arguments that we didn't want to move on from, and the self-centered priorities that kept us from caring for one another...

"Things don't matter. People do."

something that i don't quite understand...

...why is everyone always trying to be better than everybody else?