We got Chinese food the other night and my fortune was pretty interesting.
"Wisdom is knowing what to do next, skill is knowing how to do it, and virtue is doing it."
This is such a great saying, even if it did come from a fortune cookie. We often know what we have to do and how to do it, but that doesn't always mean that we actually do whatever it is that we should.
Take me for instance, over the past year I got fat. Not super fat, just fat enough that my middle sort of spills over the top of several pairs of my pants, just a little, but enough to make me feel very self-conscious. Oh, and I'm pretty sure that I look about 3 months along when I wear a dress.
Now, wisdom tells me that the obvious solution to my not-so-little problem would be to eat better, snack less, and get some hard-core exercising done.
The skill part would mostly involve me, good shoes, and a treadmill hanging out together for about 4 miles a day.
But virtue has been failing me for about 2 months, which is about how long it's been since I decided to implement my new eating and exercising regimen. In September, I decided to go to the gym every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday after class. I even put my sneakers and gym clothes in my car so that I would have them after class and not have to go home. Unfortunately, my shoes and clothes are still sitting, neatly folded, on the back seat in my car. They still smell like laundry. I'm still fat.
I guess I need to work on my virtue.
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