Notes on the Ophelia Syndrome
Do we really know everything we want in life or are we simply blinded by the lust over what appears exciting and right away? Quite often, our lust for immediate blessings overshadows and draws our attention away from the blessings we are so anxiously waiting for. When we desire a blessing immediately instead of waiting on Heavenly Father's time and place in our lives, we tend to be rather impulsive about pursuing what is in front of us. Our impulsiveness can stop us from feeling the Spirit because extreme impulsiveness can bring out our inner aggressiveness because when we want something badly enough, we do not care what we have to do to get it. We need to know what we want and understand that although what we want may not come immediately, it will come in time and it will be worth the wait. We all have our own thoughts and our own desires, but people may try to convince us that we are merely lusting after unreachable goals because our wants may interfere or prove inconvenient to their wants. Unfortunately, we try to do the same thing to others when their wants or desires interfere with ours simply because our hunger for those wants are insatiable.
We need to trust ourselves when we decide what we want and we need to trust our decisions enough that people cannot change our minds. The Spirit of God gives us revelation and when we receive it and come to accept it as revelation, it needs to remain important to us. Others may not understand when we receive revelation or determine the revelation to be non-existent because it may not happen immediately. Revelation comes to pass in God's time and not in ours, so we may need to endure patiently even when others urge us to let it go and move on. God will not punish people for listening and acting on revelation even if others murmur about it, but He will withhold blessings from those who ignore revelation. Is it really worth losing a blessing because you ignored a revelation from God for the sake of personal comfort or convenience? It is not worth denying yourself anything from God for the sake of either, as God will give us a way to handle anything He asks us to do. We cannot trust others to decide what is best for us; we need to trust that God will give us opportunity and the freedom to decide if it is best for us. If it IS best for us to do something, God WILL let us know.
Others can choose to ignore revelation wonder what blessings they would have received had they listened to the Lord, but we can choose to listen and learn when we have the chance.
Actual discussion board post
A solution to the Ophelia Syndrome is to simply to make people aware of the information available concerning choices they have the right to make and the consequences of said choices. People often act impulsively simply because they aren't aware of what information they may be missing and increased awareness can change that. We have the right to think and learn for ourselves and we also have the right to make choices based on what we learn. Society wants everyone to have common ideas and conform to social norms that have been dictated by an authority figure who does not rely on God's standard of thinking, but their own misguided ways of thinking that come as a result of limited observation or inaccurate information from dictatorial minority groups.
However, we don't have the right to choose the consequences of the choices that we make and people don't often use their brains when it comes to making choices; they make choices based on hearsay or inaccurate information instead of making a choice based on their own knowledge. It is very unfortunate that people would rather rely on the hearsay of others to make choices rather than make the effort to improve their own decision-making process, but that is the way of the world. It is becoming much too easy for people to live life as followers rather than leaders; it is easier to go with the choices of the majority than it is to stand alone, as those who stand alone are seen as social outcasts and treated as such. People want things immediately and quickly and they try to force everyone to give into the quality of impatience.
Do we really know everything we want in life or are we simply blinded by the lust over what appears exciting and right away? Quite often, our lust for immediate blessings overshadows and draws our attention away from the blessings we are so anxiously waiting for. When we desire a blessing immediately instead of waiting on Heavenly Father's time and place in our lives, we tend to be rather impulsive about pursuing what is in front of us. Our impulsiveness can stop us from feeling the Spirit because extreme impulsiveness can bring out our inner aggressiveness because when we want something badly enough, we do not care what we have to do to get it. We need to trust ourselves when we decide what we want and we need to trust our decisions enough that people cannot change our minds. We give in to the demands of others and often compromise or give up what we want simply because we do not trust our ability to fight for it.
I then turned my attention to this week's Grammar Lesson, which was on wordy sentences. I read a very interesting handout on wordy sentences and also watched a video on them.
I did the quiz twice and I got four wrong the first time, so I tried again and got three wrong the second time, making my average 70%. Wordy sentences are very hard because I would simplify most of those sentences in a different way than BYU-Idaho would simplify them.
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