LIFE UNDERSTOOD BACKWARD BUT LIVED FORWARD

LIFE UNDERSTOOD BACKWARD BUT LIVED FORWARD

   Compliment of the season to my dear readers, i sincerely appreciate my readers for the honor & love shown to me in the year 2014, i pray for the continuity of the harmonious relationship that exist between us in the year 2015 and beyond, once again i say thank you all.

   Soren Kiergaard said "life must be understood backward but it must be lived forward", Socrates pronounced the unexamined life is not worth living; the above sayings of Soren and Socrates connotes "continuous review of the past to positively affect the present and future". In order to progress & avoid repeated mistakes/errors of the past, need be for the constant review of the past. The question is "what is the degree of responsiveness to reviewing the past in positively affecting the present and future? This should ring a bell among individuals, societies and administrators across the globe.

RELATIONSHIP OF THE TOPIC TO INDIVIDUALS, SOCIETIES & ADMINISTRATORS

   A stage where individuals, societies and administrators perform is LIFE. On the 26th of December, 2014 was a theme on this blog titled "purpose of man's creation and professional challenge" where I defined Life as a puzzle to be solved by all (Life needs the knowledge everyone has to offer and man will continue to repeat same mistakes if he doesn't review/study the past). There is a saying that "man is the measure of all things" which means that man is the manager of all things life has to offer, be it good or bad. How will man be an effective and efficient manager if he hasn't understood the life backward so as to live it forward.

   Management/Administration cuts across every human profession in this world, but man cannot manage life without him being a disciplined entity and to be disciplined means to have morals to stand on, there is a saying that "morality without religion is only a kind of dead reckoning - an endeavor to find our place on a cloudy sea by measuring the distance we have run, without any observation of the heavenly bodies. What i mean is that in order for man to live life forward by understanding it backward, he must be morally upright.

   To conclude my write-up, here are some of the few sayings that will encourage man towards being disciplined;
1) Morality is the theory that every human act must be either right or wrong & that 99% of them are wrong - H.L. Mencken
2) A man that has lost moral sense is like a man in battle with both of his legs shot off: He has nothing to stand on - Henry Ward Beecher
3) Morality is a venereal disease, its primary stage called virtue...
4) Virtue is nothing else than right reason - Seneca The Younger