Tuesday, May 22, 2007

Chivalry My Response.

Let me first thank all who have visited the discussion below and commented read or maybe even walked away shaking their heads about the topic of Chivalry.

Every comment and response made in the post below about Chivalry carries a valid point on this subject.

As I researched it prior to placing the BBB post I needed to find a few pictures to place into the theme and heading for the topic.

I found many good images on Google Image Search and one in particular caught my eye.

It was of a Native Indian reaching down from his horse and extending to a lady standing below, his hands.

It was a simply beautiful picture evoking in me the feeling that it was a gesture of Great Kindness and Chivalry on behalf of this lone rider bestowed to the lady at the side of his horse. So I read further.

Let me post here what the painting was portraying from the art site it was posted on:

Nez Perce Museum

Chivalry Was Not Dead
45" X 36" oil

After the routing of soldiers up the mountain at White Bird, some of the warriors turned back toward camp. Wounded Head (Husoose-pa au-yeen) was one of these. His companions pointed out to him a white woman making her way down the hill.

This was Mrs Benedict. Wounded Head took her up on the back of his horse, past the village, and on down the canyon, where he released her.

She had been going up the hill when the soldiers came down, and had been given a horse, and her children put on one. Her horse had gotten away, but her children were safe over the hill. Her husband had been killed and their store (where White Bird is now) burned earlier in the week. She was confused and suffering from shock.

After the war, Wounded Head visited her many times. He said that she treated him like a brother.

I personally feel the need to identify Chivalry, as an act of kindness for another human beings welfare or comfort in any situation. This story highlights my own thoughts and begs my response.

Chivalry, if you have read the previous post deals with aspects of a male stance towards ladies and children with gentlemanly actions and deeds paramount in the demeanor of the chivalrous gentleman, or Knight in a previous time.

In today’s world and as we evolve further in civilisation Chivalry may become an obsolete word to some. I personally would be very sorry if that were the case and feel that we as a society would all benefit if we not only use the word Chivalrous as a description of a person who maintains his decorum, thinks and responds with kindness and care in his dealings with others but that we also encourage such behavior in our populous.

Chivalry of the knight in white shining armor may have passed us by, except at the Medieval fair, however Chivalrous actions from a fellow human being are a welcome sign that we humans are advancing and not moving back into the caveman days.

That said I know to some I may sound old fashioned when I say, “An Honorable and Chivalrous Man gives me every reason to be a responsive and thank full Lady.”

These are my musings about Chivalry and the main post is below please take time to read and enjoy.

Milli 2007

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