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Candy Bar Causality

When I was a little kid, the exact age I cannot remember, my brothers found a king size candy bar and were fighting over who's it was. It was the day after Halloween and they had their candy all over the table for trading. The fighting and verbal nettling lasted about two hours when they turned around and each went for the candy bar, only, the candy bar was no longer there. They each were so intensely testifying and threatening over whose it was that I had just come up and ate it, problem solved. Actually, not from my recollection, but it seems reasonable knowing how I think that I may have actually ate one of two candy bars and forgot about it. When they were arguing I figured that just taking the last candy bar left would not only solve their problem, but I would also acquire an extra candy bar in the process.

In today’s world, or in any time in any place, it is too easy to forget about the point of our actions and get too caught up in proving to others we are not wrong, not weak, not incompetent. In this example, both of my brothers were so focused in proving themselves right that they forgot about the whole reason they started the argument, to obtain the candy bar that was rightfully theirs. Sure, neither one could have just taken the candy bar, but neither one left room into their mind to believe that they both could be right or both are wrong. Because of each one's limited point of view and ineffective thought process, I obtained the candy bar. Although my morals were not as developed as they could have been in this situation, I knew what I wanted and took the correct, logical initiative to obtain it.

In many conversations, I have witnessed numerous results of different styles of verbalization and communication. I have noted to myself that even if one's opinion or thought is more correct or even fact, the other person's opinion or fact could be just as right or even more correct than the first person's argument or thought. To try and find out what is right is better than trying to persuade others you are right. If one tries to search for the truest truth then one will find a wider perspective on thoughts, and therefore obtain a wider consciousness of what is happening in one's surrounding environment. Applying this method of thinking to real life situations exercises one's mind into looking for outside factors, such as sneaky little brothers, when searching for a solution.


Does the solution or answer matter, or can you find a solution that covers more than just that of which you ponder? I do not claim to know anything as truth- just to live out life by what presents itself to be true, at the moment of my thought.