Thursday, March 6, 2025

Thursday Thoughts...

“The things that we love tell us what we are” 

St Thomas Aquinas

It feels like across the world, many people are showing us what they love; and by this telling us a lot about what they are. People who love their country, equality and decency; compared to people who love power and money.

One small thing caught my eye here as I thought more upon the words - the use of the phrase "... tell us what we are" because I assumed as I first read it, that it said "... tell us who we are".

What difference does what v who make I wondered? Perhaps who simply makes you go" I am a person who loves x y or z". Whereas what asks you to consider the compilation of things?

I sat for a while and pondered the things I love and what they say about me. I decided that things did not equal people, so my nearest and dearest are loved, but I shan't be pondering upon what that might say about me.

I wondered what I am given some of the things I love include quiet time, reading, conversations with friends, making and creating, sipping a good coffee, walking quietly, looking at small things of beauty in the world, and sleeping well.

What does the make me? Something along the lines of a peaceful, quiet, artistic character searching for beauty in the world?

I'll take that.


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