A public speaker I once heard said there is no action known to humanity or shortcoming of which he himself is incapable.
I mulled this thought.
I resisted his obvious implication.
There are indeed many things, my thinking was, that some humans have done that I will not do.
I believed then, as I do now, in my capacity to draw the line.
But, I am less eager, less assured, some years later, to disagree with the insightful speaker. It has taken time and pain but I have seen myself, and, while there is much to love and enjoy, I don’t always like what I see.
My capacity to draw the line, to maintain good boundaries, the wisdom to place limits on primal urges, has involved a complex multifaceted and multilayered journey of failures and some successes, and everything with all the in-between ambiguities.
I know I am as vulnerable as the speaker suggested. Indeed, there remain things I won’t do that other humans have done, but there are times the line is rather faint and I’m as vulnerable as the next person to taking care of myself at the expense of others.
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