Naked Lunch; Seeing and Changing the Bad Bits

In regards to the book, "Naked Lunch", Jack Kerouac suggested the title.

"The title means exactly what the words say: naked lunch, a frozen moment when everyone sees what is on the end of every fork."

I think that when one is working on oneself in any capacity, we all have a Naked Lunch moment. We see the good and the bad parts of ourselves.

The trap that I find myself getting into(and I don't think that I'm alone) is that we think that the parts are static.

We think that the good parts will always be there and always be good. We will always be brave, or kind, or smart, or whatever so we don't really work on those.

We think that the bad parts will always be there and always be bad.

Which takes me to the title.

The bad bits have one thing in common with the good bits. They can change. They may not change easily but eventually they can change.

Remembering this helps me to keep going and keep trying.

A lot of people when they see the Dalai Lama or other really evolved people concentrate on their evolved-ness, how they are better than we are. I like to remember how they were once just like we are now.