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Muslims, Stop Begging For Acceptance ~ Shadee Elmasry
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I thought about this question about what should I personally be doing to 'integrate' into society and the wider world. The answer I came up with is 'nothing'. In fact I should try harder to disassociate from people, the world and it's society. The problem is if you always be around other people you will end up losing. Ill try to illustrate this with a couple of examples.
Sometimes when shopping I ask others 'what do you think about these clothes, are they good?' But when I am alone, I say to myself, I don't like the clothes and I have wasted my money. I feel uncomfortable wearing these because deep down only I knows what makes me comfortable with how I dress.
Also when I have a headache, someone says take Paracetamol and another says take Ibuprofen and another Codeine. The problem is no one really knows what my headache is like, because I am the only one who feels my headache. So only I know what will cure my headache.
The point is that other people will give you good advice, but in reality its their advice. And society is just lots of people who have a common approach to life advice that they feel is normal acceptable behaviour.
Only in really important decisions in my life I will try to seek other people with more wisdom with me on what is the best decision to make, because I thought they are more knowledgeable than me in certain maters. But recently I have stopped that altogether.
When I take others advice, whether that turns out to be the right or wrong advice in the future is irrelevant to them. I have to bear the consequences of that decision. And then in the future I will be cursing myself because I made a choice and lived life for another. When I am in my grave I don't want to say, yeah I had a good life, but most of it was lived because of what others showed me. Even with my parents I reject all advice, because I live better if I make a decision from myself, and I live that life, and only I bear the responsibility for this. Its empowering.
And obviously that is not the case for acceptance.
Sometimes when shopping I ask others 'what do you think about these clothes, are they good?' But when I am alone, I say to myself, I don't like the clothes and I have wasted my money. I feel uncomfortable wearing these because deep down only I knows what makes me comfortable with how I dress.
Also when I have a headache, someone says take Paracetamol and another says take Ibuprofen and another Codeine. The problem is no one really knows what my headache is like, because I am the only one who feels my headache. So only I know what will cure my headache.
The point is that other people will give you good advice, but in reality its their advice. And society is just lots of people who have a common approach to life advice that they feel is normal acceptable behaviour.
Only in really important decisions in my life I will try to seek other people with more wisdom with me on what is the best decision to make, because I thought they are more knowledgeable than me in certain maters. But recently I have stopped that altogether.
When I take others advice, whether that turns out to be the right or wrong advice in the future is irrelevant to them. I have to bear the consequences of that decision. And then in the future I will be cursing myself because I made a choice and lived life for another. When I am in my grave I don't want to say, yeah I had a good life, but most of it was lived because of what others showed me. Even with my parents I reject all advice, because I live better if I make a decision from myself, and I live that life, and only I bear the responsibility for this. Its empowering.
And obviously that is not the case for acceptance.
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