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Not Writing About Embarrassing Moments

Jamál (Beauty), 9 ʻAẓamat (Grandeur) 177 B.E. Sunday, May 24, 2020

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PROMPT May 24th

Write about something awkward or embarrassing that happened in public - it can be something that happened to you, or something you witnessed happen to somebody else. How did they react?

After contemplating this prompt all night, I've decided to pass on it. I've no desire to discuss embarrassing moments that I've experienced or witnessed. My meditation on this subject revealed two reasons I'm not discussing or writing about them. One reason is that I don't care to discuss those I can partially remember. And two, the following quote by Baha'u'llah keeps running through my mind.

"O Companion of My Throne!
Hear no evil, and see no evil, abase not thyself, neither sigh and weep. Speak no evil, that thou mayest not hear it spoken unto thee, and magnify not the faults of others that thine own faults may not appear great; and wish not the abasement of anyone, that thine own abasement be not exposed. Live then the days of thy life, that are less than a fleeting moment, with thy mind stainless, thy heart unsullied, thy thoughts pure, and thy nature sanctified, so that, free and content, thou mayest put away this mortal frame, and repair unto the mystic paradise and abide in the eternal kingdom forevermore."

The Hidden Words, Part Two: From the Persian, Number 441

Footnotes
1  https://www.bahai.org/r/697759113