“There is no means of testing which decision is better, because there is no basis for comparison. We live everything as it comes, without warning, like an actor going on cold. And what can life be worth if the first rehearsal for life is life itself? That is why life is always like a sketch. No, "sketch" is not quite a word, because a sketch is an outline of something, the groundwork for a picture, whereas the sketch that is our life is a sketch for nothing, an outline with no picture.”
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This would be true if every life happened in isolation. But lives play out across a tableau of culture, against a backdrop of a hundred thousand years of history. We know which decision is better because it survives. A life well lived begets more life well lived.
It takes an odd blindness to see oneself as forging a lonely unguided path, while all the weight of history surrounds them with the evolved wisdom of tradition, and the more immediate example of a planet awash in all manner of lives lived in as many ways. To choose such a lonely way will lead to a lonely end.
Live is a sketch for eternity in heaven or hell. We know from the Holy Spirit what to do and what not to do. Deep down we always know. Yes, we have been warned, by Jesus the son of god. And it is all out there, everything the Bibel says. Jesus gave us pen and paper to create our sketch and we are responsible for how the picture turns out. 🧡
Alla prima.