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Life Lessons
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Life Lessons  Lately I've been finding myself spending more and more time wandering around my past. I suppose it’s a natural inclination as we age to re-trace the footsteps of one’s existence and perhaps try to validate one’s experience as having a life worth living. As I sort my way through the blur of days, months, and years of a randomly unfolding series of experiences—good and bad, happy and sad, triumph and tragedy, love and hate, beauty and ugliness— I wondered whether anything I’ve learned over the years is worth sharing. Each generation is presented with new and more complex challenges than the previous generation. The conditions of life they have to navigate get more complicated as the world gets smaller. We find ourselves invading each others’ spaces as technology creates fast moving treadmills of daily life with no way to get off. A shrinking world featuring transient population shifts finds new inter-racial, inter-cultural, global communities springing up everywhere. A shrinking world also sets the stage for cultural lifestyle clashes as we struggle to exist in shrinking spaces. With less space to share, the world has become a more dangerous place as violence too often becomes the option of first choice in resolving conflict. The profound impact of all of this is a feeling of helplessness. These conditions of existence become personal, hanging over some of us like a cloud. Relief is elusive. The only thing we can control is ourselves. For many of us, getting ourselves from one day to another is a challenge. But we can take action to pave ourselves a more deliberate and predictable path that at least diminishes that helpless feeling and puts the steering wheel in our hands. Here are a few Universal Truths I’ve assembled over the years. These universal truth statements are derived from ideas and concepts that have resurfaced in my life time and again. 1. Life is not fair—get over it. 2. For every choice there is a consequence. 3. You are who you believe you are. 4. You have the power to make or break someone’s day. 5. Show respect to get respect. 6. Helping others succeed helps you succeed. 7. Take time out to regroup. 8. Broken promises signal a broken person. 9. Live life with intention. What say you? What are your universal values? |
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The only reason to look back is to see how far you've come!
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11/16/2015 7:31 am |
Life is so short if you don't enjoy it it's over. Need to do all you want because you won't get a second chance !!!  >>!
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Morning, The journey into our past to examine how our choices have brought us to our current path is one that too many never take. I use it as a time to examine how my actions have affected the lives of others as well because my passage leaves a wake that might take years to be seen. After reading you list, the only additional rule I have concerning not making someone now in your life pay for the sins of previous people. For me I find this mainly happens when someone I'm seeing does something similar to something done by a prior girlfriend that led to pain for me and I find that my reaction toward her is based on that prior incident. I have to pause and force myself to look at her actions for what they are based on my knowledge of her. I do bring in the prior experience as I judge if she has the same intent, but that is its only entrance into the situation. Safe wanderings and be gentle with yourself when critiquing bad decisions. Take care, H
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Good post. Those truths are pretty accurate but the overriding one is #1. It can override #5, #6 and #8. Because as you said The only thing we can control is ourselves. When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro. The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
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Number 3.. Then I really AM Han Solo. Smart as a horse and hung like Einstein.
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The more you complain, the longer God makes you live.
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What say you? What are your universal values? I practice mindfulness...live in the here and now. I will practice Random Acts of Kindness. I will be assertive. I will be respectful. I will love. Life will have it's ups and downs. I will do things to help me de-stress. I will have fun! “Life is available only in the present moment.” Thich Nhat Hanh Come and read my blog! Become a watcher! veryfunnycple64 
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I love that list, Myelin. Thank you for sharing it. I offer this: No one ever made a good decision while held in the grip of fear. Even if you are frightened and in danger, good decisions come out of your courage. My featured post this week: Pulling Fantasy Sex Out of My Ass.
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1 post 12/13/2015 12:29 pm |
"It's difficult starting off but it's better then going backwards!" -Lito
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Fair is a four letter word that begins with F
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