Ania in White

Ania in White, a photo by gingerpig2000 on Flickr.

Via Flickr:
I keep forgetting to do some more black and white images, they are a challenge all of their own.

In any part of life it is all too easy to believe that you are doing the proper thing, and that the proper thing is the right thing to do. 'Proper' is a holding action prior to the disintegration of a system - the moment you start believing in it you are condemning the future of your organisation.

It works like this: Any system is designed to suit the situation at one point in time and likely deviations, based on past experience. The present is always changing, and you cannot stop that change because every single action you take changes the present. EVERY action. Even breathing does it. Imagine you decide to have pizza - the action of buying ingredients will be sensed by all those people involved in the ingredients, and even gathering the ingredients from your garden changes your garden, a garden that will be different depending on whether you choose to grow tomatoes or grass.

Since we cannot predict safely all the future, there is no such thing as a proper action predefined before the present takes place. 'Proper' assumes that you know the future, and can make it as the present. But you cannot, eventually the present will veer further and further from situation in the past.

The right action is the one best suited to the present. Not the proper one.

by Trevor Butcher

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