Family is your virtue / La familia es tu virtud (eng-esp)
Greetings, everyone.
In my previous post, I talked about virtue, and today I want to discuss a closely related topic: the usefulness of virtue.
A virtue that serves no purpose, that doesn't improve anything, is just a pretty word. What isn't useful to the community, ultimately, isn't useful to the individual.
Virtue must be useful to the community, but it begins with you first. You can't give what you haven't built. And the first community, the fundamental one, is the family. It's the social laboratory where you test whether what you say you believe actually works.
Here, truth or hypocrisy is revealed. If you are kind in public but harsh and sarcastic at home, you are not patient, you are not virtuous. It's all an act. It's pure hypocrisy.
If you demand respect and consideration outside, but don't listen to your partner or dismiss your children's ideas, that's not character, it's pure ego disguised as strength.
Virtue must be useful and, therefore, practiced in the family and outside of it in the same way. Its usefulness lies in creating a functional, safe, and mutually enriching environment.
It is within the family that we learn the true value of virtues. We learn to remain silent about unnecessary things to avoid hurting others. We learn to respect differing opinions at the table, even if they are uncomfortable. We learn to be responsible for tasks that no one will applaud, such as taking out the trash or tidying up, because the common good requires it. In short, we learn to choose the good of the group over our own whims.
If this micro-society isn't functioning, if it's full of resentment and unease, what good is it to be called a "good person" by others? True virtue is the kind that builds peace and harmony from within. That's the foundation.
Everything else is a facade that, sooner or later, will reveal the cracks of what wasn't built with truth at home.
Versión en español
Saludos, estimadas.
En mi publicación anterior hablaba sobre la virtud y hoy quiero conversar sobre un tema muy relacionado: la utilidad de la virtud.
Una virtud que no sirve para nada, que no mejora nada, es solo una palabra bonita. Lo que no es útil para la comunidad, en definitiva, no es útil para el individuo.
La virtud debe ser útil para la comunidad, pero comienza en ti primero. No puedes dar lo que no has construido. Y la primera comunidad, la fundamental, es la familia. Es el laboratorio social donde se prueba si lo que dices creer realmente funciona.
Aquí se descubre la verdad o la hipocresía. Si eres amable en público pero eres duro y sarcástico en casa, no eres paciente, no eres virtuoso. Son apariencias. Es hipocresía pura.
Si exiges respeto y consideración afuera, pero no escuchas a tu pareja o desprecias las ideas de tus hijos, eso no es carácter, es puro ego disfrazado de fortaleza.
La virtud debe ser útil y, por tanto, practicada en la familia y fuera de ella de la misma manera. Su utilidad está en crear un entorno funcional, seguro y de crecimiento mutuo.
Es en la familia donde aprendemos la verdadera utilidad de las virtudes. Aprendemos a callar lo innecesario para evitar herir. Aprendemos a respetar el pensamiento distinto en la mesa, aunque sea incómodo. Aprendemos a ser responsables en tareas que nadie aplaudirá, como sacar la basura o ordenar, porque el bien común lo requiere. Aprendemos, en suma, a elegir el bien del grupo por encima del capricho propio.
Si esta micro-sociedad no funciona, si está llena de resentimiento y malestar, ¿de qué sirve que afuera te llamen "buena persona"? La virtud útil es la que construye paz y funcionamiento desde el núcleo. Ese es el cimiento.
Todo lo demás es una fachada que, tarde o temprano, mostrará las grietas de lo que no se construyó con verdad en casa.



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