Posted by
Scaramouche on Monday, November 12, 2007 8:49:01 AM
To know what is right and not to do it is the worst
cowardice.
Author: Confucius
Degree and duration are the colors of perception. "I am hungry" is
like the page of a coloring book not yet touched by a child's imagination.
"I haven't had any food in four days" has a vibrance that emotes
empathy from even one who has not experienced the condition. So too, are the
degrees and durations that color opinions of cowardice. There are the yellows
of retreat from threat, the whites of allowing unnoticed wrongs to go
unpronounced and unpunished, the green of jealousy, the black of hatred and as
many hues and shades as within the spectrum. One cowardly act may, or may not,
a coward define. A lifetime of betrayals of belief, of others, and, of
self through unwillingness to do what is right asks for no further definition.
Scaramouche could write all day and into the night and never reveal what inner
tortures have taken place, as this mule believes that the worst cowardice is
that concluding in self condemnation and refusal to accept forgiveness from
God, man, or self. Man or mule can suffer greater from pain wrought by self
than that created by the machinations and imaginations of any oppressor.
Can there be redemption? The reply to that resides in each
individual who would ponder a while and arrive at their own determination.
“With God all things are possible”; so Scaramouche has to choose belief in the
wisdom and mercy of his Creator… and wait. .... til that dark hour when it
becomes necessary to exact the ultimate punishment against the object of his
only hatred.