"There ain't no flies on us. There ain't no flies on us. There might be flies on some of you guys, but there ain’t no flies on us."
This is an old scout game, where there are two teams. One of the teams recite this with minimal volume and the other team recites the same chant, but in a volume that is slightly higher the previous recital. This slow crescendo pattern continues until both teams are on the top of their lungs yelling!
This is just a fun game, but if you swap the word "flies" with "faults", you might see the root cause of most of the conflict occurring in our world. To me, this came in the form of a three letter word: EGO. There are no flies on me. These three letters are defined by the dictionary to be a "person's sense of …show more content…
Self-esteem is a positive attribute, but problems arise when we let ego to take over us. This is when we feel like our friends are family are attacking us with everything they say. This is when we feel like we have the need to defend ourselves. It can be seen in reformation and crusades of the catholic church, the White Australian policy, ISIS, in the moment when Mike from Requiem for a Beast, throws the Aboriginal boy over the bridge, in every heated, EMOTIONAL arguments that you have with your friends and even during those times you feel the urge to interrupt ones …show more content…
The feeling of importance and being disconnected from the world occasionally, can help us find and express ourselves, but, we also need to consider others. Yes, you can do what you want to but, our history has been stained unnecessarily from people doing only what they wanted to do. Even at our level, it could cause unnecessary frustrations and sadness. In most cases, we hide our regret and continue being stubborn like this character here. Wouldn’t our world and our lives be more peaceful if we accepted the fact that no one is always right, that there could be some valuable points in other's perspectives and also that connections are more important than trying to prove our point and appear
This is an old scout game, where there are two teams. One of the teams recite this with minimal volume and the other team recites the same chant, but in a volume that is slightly higher the previous recital. This slow crescendo pattern continues until both teams are on the top of their lungs yelling!
This is just a fun game, but if you swap the word "flies" with "faults", you might see the root cause of most of the conflict occurring in our world. To me, this came in the form of a three letter word: EGO. There are no flies on me. These three letters are defined by the dictionary to be a "person's sense of …show more content…
Self-esteem is a positive attribute, but problems arise when we let ego to take over us. This is when we feel like our friends are family are attacking us with everything they say. This is when we feel like we have the need to defend ourselves. It can be seen in reformation and crusades of the catholic church, the White Australian policy, ISIS, in the moment when Mike from Requiem for a Beast, throws the Aboriginal boy over the bridge, in every heated, EMOTIONAL arguments that you have with your friends and even during those times you feel the urge to interrupt ones …show more content…
The feeling of importance and being disconnected from the world occasionally, can help us find and express ourselves, but, we also need to consider others. Yes, you can do what you want to but, our history has been stained unnecessarily from people doing only what they wanted to do. Even at our level, it could cause unnecessary frustrations and sadness. In most cases, we hide our regret and continue being stubborn like this character here. Wouldn’t our world and our lives be more peaceful if we accepted the fact that no one is always right, that there could be some valuable points in other's perspectives and also that connections are more important than trying to prove our point and appear