While making Turkish coffee, the outside bell rang. I rushed to open it. When I came back, the kettle was boiling violently and it splashed everywhere.
This event was the seed for writing this post. We need to stir the kettle so that we do not have very hot pockets of energy localized and erupting.
It surprised me that we call people who act wrongly such as by spreading rumors and backbiting, as stirrers. They at least make the contents of pots and other utensils boil uniformly and more safely? Is this paradoxical? If yes, how then we can solve this paradox?
Not all stirrers are good for all contents.
Some people use boiling stones to stir a pot while heating it. If the content of the pot is acidic the meal turns turbid and looks horrible to eat. People stirrers fill your pot with their sour intentions and stir it to make it turbid.
Your mind/heart is the pot that these human stirrers render acidic only to make your mind/heart turbid and unclear.
Human stirrers know when to stop stirring for a vicious reason. If you make ice cream, you do not want to stop stirring the contents because you do not want big ice crystals in your ice cream. Human stirrers distract you to stop stirring. You may opt not to eat the ice cream. Human stirrers are waiting to consume them free. They know their game well.
Human stirrers stir you while you are angry at the pretention they want to regulate your “boiling” and preventing you from exploding. Their real intention is to fill you, while stirring, with acidic stone-like words that make your blood boil and so your mind and heart shall and be more turbid than before.
Even more, like acids corrodes steal they too can corrode your mind and heart. Their acidic and sour words make you feel sour only to crack yourself. Your emotions pour out with acidity only to harm you more.
Human stirrers add the boiling stone to the hot angry mind and heart so that they may suddenly start an uncontrollable boil-over. They are adding stones at the wrong times so boil you over.
Human stirrers are human hornets. Unlike a bee that dies after one sting, these hornets can harm you more than once and in different ways.
Surround yourself with people who are like miracle berry. It is miraculous because berry makes you feel the acid sweet. These people reduce your anger and sweeten your heart and mind. They neutralize your anger and acidic thoughts and turn them to have a sweet taste. They are the antagonists to human stirrers.
It is my reward Aldo to join the path of your life with such wisdom. It is enough to read this “Evil, of course, must be rejected, but the wicked are people with whom one must use patience.”
Your wisdom is amazing my friend.
What can I say, what comment to make if not to congratulate again on a teaching of life that is as relevant as ever.
Having reached the age that the Lord has kindly wanted to grant me, I have met people like those described in the article, especially at the beginning of my career.
The endurance of persecutions and hostilities is part of the Christian vocation and of my nature, fortunately. Evil, of course, must be rejected, but the wicked are people with whom one must use patience. It is not a question of that hypocritical tolerance that hides ambiguity, but of justice mitigated by mercy.
Thanks Aly, you took me through a path of life in an instant.