Can the Character be Forged?
It is obvious that surrendering to our own emotions, desires and external influences,can modify our way to understanding life and our subsequent reactions to it,
and somehow, forge our character.
Of course, that is the easiest way,
but allowing it can drive us to a point of which we could hardly recognize ourselves.
A little note about metal forging
Cold Forging. It is used to give shape to metals using compression, but depending on the metal and the compression given, an opposite compression can bring the metal to its original shape.
However, Hot Forging, using fire and hammer, it changes not only the shape, but as well the mechanical properties, and its aspect.
This technique requires high precision on the working temperature and the pressure or hits given, in order to obtain the desired result.
Of course, a hot forged metal will not come back to its original shape easily, and much less by Cold Forging.
Forging the Character is not much different
Allowing others or the circumstances to forge our character, or as in the simile, “the Cold Forging of the Character”,
won’t give the desired results, and furthermore, will not last when we will undergo real “Fire and Hammer” in our life.
In order to shape our character to our will, we will have the need to put ourselves to “Red Hot” and “pound” ourselves repeatedly.
Same way as on metal forging, constancy, and hard work is required, but it is within reach of us all.
Only 3 things are needed:
1.- Be realistic
We can’t pretend a real and lasting change if we deny our own reality, our starting point.
No excuses are allowed here.
2.-Define how you want to be, and how you not.
As a start, we could observe the inception of our reactions, to which human values they correspond,
discarding or enhancing them accordingly to our goals.
3-To copy.
As simple as it sounds.
Once defined how we want to be, most practical thing is to observe the people who have the qualities you want to have, and to copy the way they cultivate them.
If you are reading this, most probably your character is already forged,
so there is no time left to make “test-error”experiments.
You better copy from the ones who are successful on it, rather than boosting the illusion that you are a genius and getting lost on trying.
You will have work enough on forging your character.
The good thing about it is that forging a character, unlikely to forging a metal, it has no end.
You can always “go on pounding” and convert an ordinary piece of metal in an extraordinary Katana.
It’s up to you.
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Kommentare
David Navarro López
vor 7 Jahren #14
As long as nobody is perfect, there is always something one can improve. The better we think we are, the more difficult will be to forge our character to improve. So nobody should be at ease on working hard to improve and grow as human beings.
Ali Anani
vor 7 Jahren #13
CityVP Manjit
vor 7 Jahren #12
Ali Anani
vor 7 Jahren #11
Ali Anani
vor 7 Jahren #10
One thing I am sure of is that you have a hotly-forged character with great purity and self-transformed with great attributes dear David Navarro L\u00f3pez
David Navarro López
vor 7 Jahren #9
That's interesting, dear Ali, I did not know about Emily Dickinson. To write the post, I took my inspiration of a much older book, the bible. On it, many references about it can be seen, using gold and silver as a metaphor for character, and how making ourselves to become red hot in a melting pot would separate the "contaminating" parts, and reveal purity.
Ali Anani
vor 7 Jahren #8
David Navarro López
vor 7 Jahren #7
Mr Randy Keho, I am sorry I don't know about Colin Kapernick, but I understand your point. This is precisely what I meant, that there is a work we need to do with ourselves, and that is to mold our character according to our will and convictions, no matter what other people say. This is what is nice of being a human being. You have the right to be unique, and no one has the right to tell us who should we be otherwise. Am I or are you a bit off-center? No, i am sorry. Nobody has the right to say what the "center" is. (I know what irony is, I am Spaniard, you know?, but precisely with the people who want you to be like they think you should be, the ones who think having the right to set what "center" and "off-center" is, one can not go with irony. Irony is for intelligent people. They aren't)
Ali Anani
vor 7 Jahren #6
The whole posts must be read in its integrity my friend David Navarro L\u00f3pez to enjoy it. I read it in Google Translate first and then in English and I find it a very thorough post that deserves full attention.
David Navarro López
vor 7 Jahren #5
Dear Ali Ali Anani I am afraid I do not understand fully your sentence "Your reasoning in strong and extracting scattered points from this well-thought post is unfair"
David Navarro López
vor 7 Jahren #4
Thank you Praveen for your deep thoughts which it worth another buzz. I agree that, in your words "we are born into a certain family, in a certain place, at a certain time", and it could determine the type of character it should be forged. Nevertheless, some human values are universal, love, respect, you name it, valid for any culture or place in time. The process you mention "It is Character that drives the Will to shape the hot smouldering metal of Desire into something that would translate its intent into being." it is, effectively, how it should be. My question is, what if you have fallen into a type of negative/destructive character? For the same reasons, you would follow this pattern on and on, and it must be a point on which you need to stop, start from scratch , and breakthrough this process. Otherwise, your own survival would be at a thread. Then is when it comes the choice you mention, I suppose, and were your destiny can be changed, don't you think?
Randy Keho
vor 7 Jahren #3
Ali Anani
vor 7 Jahren #2
David Navarro López
vor 7 Jahren #1