I discovered Carl Jung… stumbled upon him like one discover a little cafe when out for a walk and realize hunger… is it weird to say I fell in love? I guess so. I was glad though 🤔
But it’s interesting that when I started to refer to him or quote him, I found out that there are those against him and those for him. That identifying myself with him puts me with them and I am written off. I was once scolded for talking about him to an impressionable youth!
But let’s get back to one of the wonderful things about Jung… I wonder if I can put it into words.
There’s this test called the Myers Briggs Personality test. If you click on that it’ll take you to the test, and you can see for yourself. A couple of the questions were like this (true or false)
- 1. You are almost never late for your appointments
- 40. Deadlines seem to you to be of relative rather than absolute importance
But my point is that Jung looks at the personality trait as neither good nor bad, but instead it is just part of who you are. He takes the SIN of it away. The best aspect of this is that some abusive folks I ran into described me as a chameleon or used car salesman, telling you what you want to hear in order to schmooze you… well, ok, so what’s your point LOL… but Jung’s definition is that I am a teacher or counsellor type. That I can hear you out, and not judge you in the sense that I write you off or dismiss you because your beliefs don’t line up with my own. We can have different world views, and I’ll still hang out with you!
When you live your life according to SHOULD… or OUGHT – the problem I have with it is that what you want to do is still there. It’s been paved over, waiting to poke itself out through the cracks at some unguarded moment.
Click here for Chapter one of Resurrection for that allusion. In that first chapter Tolstoy describes in poetical voice, the world in terms of nature that has been paved over. And then nature reclaims its own again. That’s what the book is about. The main character, Nekhludoff, is confronted with his past, and reacts as one might expect. He hides, he seeks towards self preservation, then various things that look like repentance, but eventually he gets to real repentance. What we see develop in this book is evidence of how God can work in the lives of men and women who are reaping what they have sewn in their lives.
Unexamined that should can be living according to someone else’s conscience. You have disconnected yourself from that little room poorly described.
The work of the Holy Spirit is to make me like Christ.
That’s not what I mean by running away from “should” first admit, and confront what you are thinking!
To deny you’re angry just buries it, suppressing it doesn’t heal it.
I wrote about doing rash things with a clock.
So heaven help me do I have to accept a person who cannot be on time?
Go ahead and be late, but you’ll miss the bus. If the next bus is tomorrow morning, stay right there you’re now early.
Procrastination is the dog and cat of the person who is always late.
So here we are… I’m wrestling with this cuz I want to talk about what you SHOULD do… but I don’t believe in should, so I’m kinda stumped.
I did 32 years of shift work as a bus driver.
My shifts were precise time and location:
Example:
23/401 RTC 04:02 – 11:06 Brighouse Station
(RTC: Richmond Transit Centre: The Bus Barn: Home Base… I think you got it… do you got it?)
If we were late signing in for our shift by more than 3 minutes another operator (fancy name for bus driver) is placed on your work and you get a “sleeper” 3 sleepers and you get a suspension, and I guess if this keeps up you’re fired… I never went past one sleeper in close succession… so I don’t know… I digress.
Every morning there are 3 standbys (operators who are there standing by – and the depot clerks place them on work of sleepers.
When you get a sleeper you miss a day’s pay.
11:06 – 4:02 + :20 travel time = 7:24 minutes x 36$ an hour = $266.40 loss
So… needless to say being late was beaten out of me during that 32+ years. Strategies were developed to avoid a sleeper. When I had my coffee? None after 12:00 noon because then I wouldn’t be able to sleep. To wake up to get to work for 4:02 am meant :45 minutes getting ready (coffee, shower, dress, pack a lunch…) 20 minutes travel time from home to work plus 15 minutes contingency (car needs gas, traffic problem…)
4:02 minus :45 minus :20 minus 15 = 2:42 am wake up
I still have this app on my phone! I’m retired now.!
I’m usually 10 minutes early for where I have to be.
I guess, as I ponder the final word for now from me about this business of being on time or not, its about LOVE. Loving my neighbor as myself. I don’t want to be late. And by saying that I mean I do what ever I want to do, within the limits of this that is so eloquently described by M Scott Peck <click on it>
Loving others, putting myself in their place, I feel its more loving to be on time or early. Being late for a meeting means that I’ve placed more importance on my time than on that of the person I am meeting with. I’m wasting their time, while maximizing my own.
Running Down Vimy 