Romantic Sentimism

Romantic sentiments are good for two things.  They make good novels and movies.  They do not serve us well in the realm of reality serving only to skew what is.  

Romantic sentiments differ from vision or a dream.  

Romantic sentiments look backwards while dreams and visions look forward.  

Romantic sentiments glorify the past while dreams and vision looks towards a glorious future.  

Romantic sentiments have a tendency to keep us in a rut repeating mistakes and old habits.  People boldly proclaim romantic sentiments at times in a sort of arrogance and pride.  Don’t get me wrong.  

Romantic sentiments have their place and do serve their own valuable service.  But can, like other things, be abused and used for the wrong purposes for example in the case of supporting ideas and concepts that otherwise would have no founding or find very little support.  

Romantic sentiments should not be aloud to claim precedence over well founded best practices, research, biblical principles and in general just plain common wisdom and knowledge.  When we hold tenaciously to a sentiment as such we run a very real risk of hindering vital progress.  What is most disappointing is that all romantic sentiments are a heightened and often glorified picture of what was, now cast in a vision of what should be.  The problem is that the feelings that fuel such memory lack a real sense of practical wisdom being founded simply in the notion void of any real concrete support.  In fact it is often the case that this notion over rides the best wisdom and practices desiring to remain in the feeling of the memory invoked, rather than in the reality of the presence. (Authored by Lee R. Morest)