Over the weekend, I spoke on the phone to a friend of mine who I haven't kept in very close contact with since coming to college. I got to hear the overly dramatic details of what I missed during my month abroad from 'the burg', including my friend's personal gripes and emotions relating to every subject. She often gets very hard on herself for things she does, or more respectively, how people respond to the things she does. She finds fault in her actions if the approval of her peer group doesn't come pouring down in a gushing flow to greet her. Even though my friend can be a little over reactant, she is still a very intelligent person with unconventional sense and wisdom. She asked me if I learned anything life changing or inspirationaly deep that I could pass onto her, so I gave her this little diddy:

Even a man of knowledge
behaves in accord with his own nature;
creatures all conform to nature;
what can one do to restrain them?

After gnawing on it for a while, she agreed that it makes sense. We then began discussing some other mumbo jumbo about human nature and all that jazz, but after diverting out course we returned to the relevance of the stanza in everyday life. It makes it easier to understand people, being about to realize that not everyone is a programmed organism and that people cannot be boiled down to a science, despite how well you know them. Also, you need to filter feedback from others, because it too is not idealistic and all knowing. These slight variances in each others' natures makes everything a tad more interesting, and understanding that these variances occur and are natural make many things easier to accept.