In this article, an important and deep topic will be affected - betrayal.
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To betray is low and mean. But why did Plutarch draw a parallel between betrayal in relation to someone and the betrayal of himself? How is it possible? After all, a person in most cases acts on the basis of his interests, then what betrayal in relation to himself can be discussed? Let's try to understand this casuistry.
Individuality against facelessness
To betray yourself is to abandon yourself as an individual, individuality. A person has been given a lot to comprehend a new one, he must overcome obstacles and peaks himself, precisely thanks to the properties of his best qualities. Having ceased to be a person, a person loses his individual qualities, becomes a “gray mass”, faceless and boring.
But is the rejection of self -improvement, spiritual and moral development not the betrayal of their own interests? And having betrayed himself, a man has nothing to lose - he lost everything he could. Therefore, is it surprised that betrayal in relation to another person (country, team, family, etc.) becomes natural for him?
Having depreciated as a person, a person, unfortunately, no longer thinks about moral categories.
We choose, they choose us
Only parents and homeland do not choose. All our other relationships are our conscious choice. We ourselves choose who to be friends with, whom to love, with whom to communicate, and with whom - no.
And it is our choice that we betray first of all, betraying another. By the way, both parents and homeland are also sometimes betrayed. And here we are already talking about another choice: whose interests to put above: their own or others. But in any case, the choice in favor of betrayal always ends with the destruction of their own personality.
To be or not to be?
The betrayal devastates the soul. Still, few people, having betrayed someone, do not feel torment of conscience, the heart always remains on the heart, although we often make ourselves not to pay attention to these torments of conscience, persuading ourselves that we act in our own interests. These spiritual experiences could help a person in the future, when he again becomes in front of the dilemma: to betray or act according to conscience.
And this connection is directly proportional, the more often a person makes a choice in favor of conscience, the cleaner and more fully his inner world. And vice versa. Therefore, it turns out that betrayal primarily affects the personality of the betrayed.
A blacksmith of his happiness
Can a person who is low in the eyes of those who surround him? Can talk about self -sufficiency and self -satisfaction the one from whom close people turned away?
Outgoing cannot be happy, it is natural. And a voluntary rejection of happiness, from a state of spiritual peace and balance is equal to the betrayal of oneself.
Drink your poison, prosecutor Pontius Pilate
Literature is a reflection of life. Therefore, examples confirming the correctness of Plutarch’s thoughts can serve as literary works.
- Let us recall how, having betrayed the love of a pure girl Erast, the hero of the “poor Lisa” Karamzin, then all his life reads himself as a killer. To lose, by your own will of peace and happiness for life, is a vivid example of betrayal of oneself.
- Or Lermontovsky Pechorin - did he not destroy himself with trends, turning into a cynic?
- The flour of conscience experienced by Pontius Pilate until the end of life and even after death, the blood before his eyes is not only retribution for the betrayal of Yeshua, it is also the revenge of the destroyed consciousness, lost the ego - perhaps this is how the image of the prosecutor Bulgakov interpreted, working on “master and Margarita ".
- The brightest evidence of the correctness of the assertion between the betrayal of himself and someone Shakespeare leads to Hamlet.
- Let us recall the Polonia, who learned Laerte and claimed that only being faithful to be true to others. And in his 9th dream, Shakespeare repeats that the betrayer does not love anyone in the whole world.
- The treacherous kiss of Judas is the world known in the world, whose name is to this day with contempt -Judas Zariot, who appreciated his soul at the price of a slave -thirty silvermen, who became a traitor exclusively of greed (after all, he did not have any accusations against Christ).
- And, as the priests say, it was from this betrayal that envy, ambition and other grave sins have grown.
Each of us, remaining free, should at the same time be guided by a sense of responsibility in our actions. And again, the choice is to remain yourself or to take the side of such an attractive, tempting evil.
Judas made his choice - and was killed by the void created in it by betrayal. And thirty silvermen became not only at the cost of betrayal, but also the cost of losing conscience, honor and oneself.
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