How do you always do the right thing? How do you act so righteous?
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One. I try to do the right thing.

Two. Then, I do the right thing.

That is all.

What I mean is that you can’t do the right thing unless you consciously try.

People’s mistakes happen in the most offhanded ways.

Swept along moment to moment, they fall into evil.

Without reason, without consideration, without dedication.

The next thing they know, they are on the wrong path, as if it were the only one.

Yet, by contrast;

“I was doing the right thing without realizing it.”

“The next thing I knew, I was doing good deeds.”

“In a moment of carelessness, I helped someone.”

You never hear those things.

You surely never will.

Righteousness cannot exist without intent.

Righteous action requires righteous intent.

You can’t do the right thing unless you try to.

If your inability to do the right thing is causing you to suffer, it’s because you don’t feel that you’re trying to do it.

There are many reasons one may not try to do the right thing.

Mountains of things may cause hesitation.

Slews of things may inspire fear.

It’s fine to blame it on another.

It’s fine to blame it on society, too.

You can blame the age we live in, or on the cards you were dealt.

But those who are not doing the right thing should acknowledge that it’s not that they cannot, but that they will not.

The same goes for you.

There’s no need to force yourself to do the right thing.

But you must not forget that it isn’t because you can’t, but because you’ve chosen not to.

All righteous people:

One: they decide to do it. Then, two: they do it.

The steps must be taken in that order.

Worrying about the second step while you’re still on the first is the height of foolishness.