Wednesday, 7 April 2010
The value of drive
In his bestselling book the purpose driven life Rick Warren advices that a person can be driven by guilt, resentment, anger, fear, materialism, need for approval. Let’s explore these further and get a clear understanding how the value of drive works;
Driven by guilt- This is the sort of person who is ruled by regrets and the need to hide their shame. The source of these regrets and shame originates from memories. Simply put they allow the past to control their future. A while back I was running and looking behind me to see if a bus was coming, and as I kept on running I kept on bumping into different people. One person complained
“Can’t you watch where you are going?” the next person said
“Ouch!!!! Did you have to step on my foot mate?” and still the 3rd one said
“Are you crazy cant you watch where you are going?”
Guilt driven people are always looking backwards and constantly hurting themselves with painfully memories. They are prisoners to their past, the best way to release yourself from this sort of painful torment is by learning from your experiences and constantly focusing on the lessons rather than the hurt and reason for the hurt.
Driven by resentment- the people driven by resentment always feel bitter and offended over something that someone did to them. Instead of seeking forgiveness and redress to the hurt they hold to it and it becomes a video they play over and over in their mind. What they don’t realize is the only person they are hurting is themselves, as they person who offered them might have moved on and no longer remembers the episode. The best way to drive yourself out of resentment is to guide yourself into forgiveness and let go and let God.
Driven by Anger- a person driven by anger is easily irritated, enraged or annoyed. Because of some past experiences they are always on the defensive. They easily blow up and explode onto others. In friendship you have to be careful about such people because they would normally get you into trouble than good. Stop at think for a moment, do you know anyone who is driven by any of these characteristics mentioned above? Have you at a point in your life been driven by one of the above characteristics?
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