What’s worth fighting for an idea, a religion, your life, honor, or all of them?

You may not know the answer or you may have it given to you, maybe even you think you know the answer. But I claim that you do not, this is not an article of ignorance, this is about life.

I assert that understanding something is a process, not a state of nature.

What this means is that anyone who claims to understand something cannot fully understand it, because in order to fully understand it you must understand what it is not to understand it.

You may be like what? Or you may even be like, “what is this guy? Build a wall around him.”

If you do understand this however, then a thousand blessings upon you for you are on your way to enlightenment.

Those who do not understand it however, well it is not too late to, but the path will be very hard.

Those who think they understand it are in fact hurting themselves, because their thoughts stop them from thinking.

The individual is not to blame, the real culprit is all of us. How society teaches the next generations to understand, that is what lies at the heart of nearly all of our misunderstandings.

The fact that you have Donald Trump running for president and Brexit, these are but symptoms of this misunderstanding. All the countless refugees, who are simply humans like the rest of us, which are not accounted for, this is another symptom.

Hate and greed are symptoms of this misunderstanding. And in our hatred or dislike of those who hate others we become hypocrites. How is it hypocritical to hate someone who hates you or others? Children are intelligent, most excellent beings and yet we do not treat them as so. We try our best to understand them, yet it never seems to quite work.

By the time we may get it, it’s too late, they’re already one of us. An adult who doesn’t understand, or thinks that they do understand.

Essentially their inherent nature of understanding is killed, because we act as if there are certain ways to understand.

It’s like playing an instrument, if a kid is a master by age five on the piano, but an old woman is a master of guitar, which is truly a master? The kid, for his rapid ability to learn it? The woman for having countless years of practice?

The answer is not fully either, but nor is neither. Both have room for improvement. The kid might be able to play all of Bach, Mozart, Dr. Dre, and Snoop Dogg. But he is merely repeating the interpretation or the drive that made others create the music in the first place.

The woman may have written many songs, but she can write infinitely more songs, that are increasingly more and more complex.

So then what is to be a master? The only true thing that can be mastered is oneself, because that is the only thing that exists solely because of you. You are the only you that ever was, and will be, only you can become you.

So the answer to our original question of "what is worth fighting for?" is the understanding of others, that's what one should strive for.