Tenet’s to Live by

Pretentious as a title can be there’s a few concepts that can guide, not tell one how to navigate life. There’s some universal experiences we all have but don’t take away whatever unique experience one is living through. This can also just be an attempt to define those shared experience by defining what’s important.

Tenets are defined as a principle, belief, or doctrine generally held to be true. It would be despite how disagreeable on a position people are we should still be able to agree that eating regularly to avoid malnutrition is something everyone would agree is good a thing. From thinking about what’s important to everyone, here’s the five most prevalent that can help expand how you think.

1. Time, it only goes one way
2. Family, chosen or given
3. Acceptance of your environment
4. Kind w/ self and others
5. Doing your part/purpose

Why are these five tenets so important?

1. Time: Most people want more of it.
2. Family: A place anyone can feel accepted, appreciated and loved is essential.
3. Acceptance: A comfy seat is better than an uncomfortable one.
4. Kindness: Be ruthless with institutions and systems for yourself and neighbors.
5. Doing your part: Nothing can be something, sometimes.

How can you begin to implement or add a more thoughtfulness to your actions?

1. Be concise and have brevity.
2. Recognition that criticism is neither always constructive or hurtful despite which end you may be on.
3. If you want to change anyone, it’s always best to try and understand their grievances, expressed or not.
4. People in a broken system aren’t broken or share in the blame of the wrongs of said systems.
5. Observation is far from nothing but equally far from learning.

What do you think you’ll walk away with?

Share in the comments or post but I hope some of what was learned was, with a final list, is:

1. Be respectful with time.
2. Family you choose in life or are given at birth, and hopefully both, will give you the space to be yourself. It’s absence is fairly detrimental, not deadly, but a “family” will add a real value and support system in life’s ups and downs.
3. Accept the journey of life is filled with never-ending paths to similar places.
4. Our responsibility for our conditions matches the agency we had in said conditioned outcomes.
5. Sometimes doing your part is waiting for the most impactful moment to do whatever it is you need to do. Others times doing your part is simply doing what must be done immediately. Distinguishing what is priority in any given moment is a responsibility we all share; however, that responsibility is best learned through experience.
   
   What’s important to me and you will differ, but hopefully these five tenets and the levels of rationale baked into them can help guide anyone in their lives.