Each step, each deed...

By Vichara

All our daily actions are tempered by knowledge and guidance given to us from what we have read or seen and from those who have helped or hindered us. All of our senses ingesting and digesting the best and the worst of humanity. If one is given only violence, one would only know violence. If one is given only compassion, one would only know compassion. The world does not work that way. It is a collection of competing contrasts that present themselves to us and ask us yo judge and act accordingly. How we act will be how the world sees us. How do you want to be remembered? Our personal legacies may not be as large as people like Rosa Parks, Gandhi, Einstein and others but it is no less important. Each step, word and deed counts and will be counted.

unreconstructed • \un-ree-kun-STRUK-tud\ • adjective
: not reconciled to some political, economic, or social change; also : holding stubbornly to a particular belief, view, place, or style
Example Sentence:
My uncle, a self-designated unreconstructed liberal who wrote frequent letters to the editor, was never one to keep his opinions to himself.
Did you know?
The reorganization and reestablishment of the seceded states in the Union after the American Civil War is referred to as the Reconstruction. In 1867 a writer for Harper's Weekly came up with the word "unreconstructed" for political candidates not reconciled to the outcome of the War and the changes enacted during the Reconstruction. The word immediately caught on with readers and has been used to refer to intransigent or dyed-in-the-wool partisans ever since. The word has also been used outside of political and social contexts. For instance, a person might be "an unreconstructed rocker" or "an unreconstructed romantic."