I Will Consult Confucius

Confucius’s teachings, if analyzed and put into practice can easily make your life way much better and therefore his teachings changed the way of life of the Chinese. Throughout the week that I started reading the analects many things happened to my life, I had some problems with my friends, with my family in which I didn’t know how to react or what to do, and at night I had to read Confucius for the blogs and happened to be that his teachings made me think and analyze what was going on in my life and gave me somehow advice on how to handle them, to make the right decision. There is this maxim with which I saw myself reflected at the time. “The Master said, “I have never been able to do anything for a person who is not himself constantly asking, “What should I do? What should I do?” 15.16 That is what I had been asking myself for an entire week. “What should I do? What should I say? How should I react?” And that is exactly not being myself, if I question my actions so much then I am very unsecure of myself and have a low self esteem. I realized that in life, if you are not sure of yourself then you are not going anywhere, people are going to squash you and life is eventually going to go ahead of you before you notice it.

I now understand the Chinese and their admiration for Confucius, he definitely changed their lives. If for me it was a help, then for them I might probably be as a God. “To make a mistake and yet not change your ways- this is what is called truly making a mistake” this maxim also made me open my eyes, mistakes are a amazing. I figured that trouble makes you grow up, and that I should not avoid them but learn from them like Confucius always says. All my life I’ve known this truth and yet every time trouble knocks on my door I forget it until they are passed and I say to myself again “Trouble makes me grow as a human being, I learn from it”. It takes a long time to understand somethings in life, sometimes you have to suffer to understand them and get to find the joy of it. Even if it sounds a bit nerdy or unrealistic I think I will consult Confucius quite often, every time I don’t now what to do.