July 7
To the rational being alone it is given to follow events willingly. Mere following is compulsion for all.
Meditations X,28
Listening mode
To the rational being alone it is given to follow events willingly. Mere following is compulsion for all.
When a decision has gone against your vote, you probably carry it out anyway. You write the email you think is wrong and set the dates that follow from it. From the outside this looks hardly any different from someone who was in favour from the start.
The difference lies elsewhere and is hard to pin down. You can vote again inwardly at every step and lose every time. Or you can take the situation as the one you now work in, without approving of it on that account.
The second is easily confused with a more comfortable solution: you talk yourself into believing the thing is actually reasonable, so that the inner arguing finally stops. Then you follow without resentment, but also without judgement of your own. A willingness that has forgotten its objections is closer to exhaustion.
Harder is keeping both: the objection you will raise again at the next opportunity, and work that until then you do not do half-heartedly. Sometimes it is only from the care you put into that email that you notice which side you are on right now.
