Laying Down A Foundation---Part 1

Everything we do in life is built upon a foundation --a basis, an understanding of deeper concepts. These aspects of our lives may be divided into some broad categories: our characteristics and actions. Regardless of how much we may try to attribute our actions and our defining characteristics to a collage of random forces, ultimately these aspects of our lives are found upon, and well rooted in, a foundation that we partially build for ourselves and that is partially built for us by the people and ideas around us. Just like any building, if such foundations are weak to begin with, or if we allow them to become vulnerable at a later time in life, our entire being of existence will falter. In such a situation, we will have no retort but to cave-in to ourselves. A simple glance at the world around us will demonstrate how much of a reality that is.