Why it's Hard to be a Better Person
When you think about it, we Jews have wonderful holidays, celebrating goodness, giving thanks to G-d for...everything. And at this time of year, we Jews are supposed, during our High Holidays, to do much introspection on our moral selves, our character, and our lives. We are supposed to make serious efforts to change for the better. Well, have we? Have we consciously worked on it? Did you become a better person than you were last year? Have I? Dennis Prager has a very interesting take on why most of us have trouble doing that . He has come up with 13 reasons - stumbling blocks, if you will - preventing us from become morally and ethically better human beings. The one that surprised me was Number One: we don't really want to be good people. Read the first four reasons below. Then click on the link, and read the rest. As someone said in a song (see previous post), it ain't gonna be so easy . 1. Most people don't particularly w...