Principles

Principles. They are a good thing...most of the time.

If you have them you live your life by those principles. They are a benchmark, a shore line that guides your ship through troubled waters. Each of us decides at what level those principles rest.

Principles can also cause negative issues because, sometimes, they conflict with emotions, standards and beliefs. Yours and mine, they can change, depending on external influences over which we have no control, things that are larger than ourselves.

I am conflicted, having to choose between principles and discretion.

Unable to even comment on the issue, especially in a public platform, angers me; yet, at the same time, the axiom 'what angers you, controls you' whispers to me, reminding once again that in life's grand scheme this issue is minor.

It's not life, death, marital or spiritual, this problem, but it is enough that it causes me to question one of my principles and how far I am willing to go to stand by it. It is a conflict within, unseen, but its manifest effect will not be. The outcome will be determined by whatever reconciliation I can make between this particular principle and an issue over which I have limited control.