Monday, November 12, 2018
Blog Post #9: The Art of Wu Wei
In high school, I was this cringy kid trying to be liked by everyone else. I hung out with these supposedly "cool" kids and do the stupid things they do, even if it was mean. It did not get me very far, my grades plummeted, got sent to the office; and when my parents found out about this and that I was hanging out with these types of kids, I got the butt whoppings of the year and grounded for about two months. In these grounded months, I realized maybe I should stop trying to be like the "cool" kids I was hanging out with and be more like myself; maybe I do not need to be friend with everyone at school but rather have a few close friends who accept me just the crazy and weird way I am. I believe this moment was an example of Wu Wei, to stop taking the upstream path and just follow the current. I wanted friendship; but instead of pretending to be someone I was not, which was difficult and uncomfortable, I was being myself and attracted friends that are more suitable and support me just the weird way I am.
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Hi khoi! I loved your little story about how you experienced first hand the wrongdoing of trying to follow others path rather than making your own. I can totally view myself in the same situation. While I was reading about confucianism I was astonished by the fact that it is indeed way easier and more beneficial to the well our well being to just follow the wu wei. Why fight for something that hasn't been given to us yet? maybe it is the way it is supposed to be. However I get it that it could be really hard and often misunderstood as conformism but it is just the fact of accepting our destiny and making the best out of it.
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