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The perception of "arrogance" in others is most often generated by the failure to recognize ignorance in--and/or of--one's own self. Rather than become a focus for your frustration, these reflections of your own shortcomings should be cause for striving to achieve a higher state of enlightenment.
We are imperfect creatures by nature - but we have evolved to the point that we each possess the ability to correct our own imperfections and, in fact, exceed all preconceived notions of our own limitations.
We have infinite potential, limited only by our choices to either exercise our imaginations and reason, or let them stagnate.
However, given the fact that all humans now exist--to varying degrees--as social entities within a larger unifying construct, all members are affected by all other members. To allow one's personal development to remain neutral, or even decay, is to force such neutrality or decay upon all other members of the collective. To not invest completely in one's own enlightenment as the most fundamental and important matter of each moment of life is to weigh down the continued evolution and progression of the human race.
Every instant of denial constitutes an injustice against every living thing.
Every individual's moments of ungoverned weakness each bring us all one step closer to extinction.
Ignorance is never a worthy excuse.
Failure is necessary; failure to try is criminal.
Apathy is the ultimate transgression against oneself, as it is against all others.
Failure will bring about the death of our past, present, and future...
...but our gift as human beings is the singular ability to truly govern inevitability.
-- and almost none of us use it.
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As a great artist sang:
"Thinking hurts and thoughts don't rhyme
To those of us who've never tried
To find a face behind our lipstick smiles;
And as our pretty faces die,
Our broken hearts will wonder why
The makeup just won't hide the scars of time."
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