What Good Will It Do You?

Something that pre-ap English has teach is that you can analyze most of the texts either old or new, and that there will always be two sides of it. Like Confucius, you can look at it in many ways and interpret how you like and that is something you will find everywhere in the world interpretation depends on the person.

The analects so far have been confusing sometimes I have to reread a sentence about seven times and break it apart to understand it’s meaning clearly. .“Eating plain food and drinking water, having only your bent as a pillow – certainly there is joy to be found in this! Wealth and eminence attained improperly concern me no more than the floating clouds.”(p.20 7.16) having something but not having to work for it is the same thing as looking at the clouds, there are there for you but what to you get from them? Not much, wealth should be something you work for not something obtained. Bill Gates for example, does not plan to give his kids an enormous amount of money but instead they have to work for it as he did so they can learn that value of money and to get wealth is by obtaining it yourself.
“If you are responsible but lack ritual you will become exasperating; if you are careful but lack ritual you will become timid; if you are courageous but lack ritual you will become unruly; and if you are upright but lack ritual you will become inflexible.” (p.23 8.2) this could say something like if you are responsible sometimes you have no right to call yourself responsible. You can only do that when you do it with “ritual” or consistency. Moreover, if you do not do it with ritual then it makes no sense why would you be responsible on only one time, what is the point of that? What good will it does to you? It is like saying I did wrong, but only one time so I shouldn’t t be punished, is the same thing as saying responsible for one day. If you want to take advantage do it every day to accomplish satisfaction
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