Conversation – 15

@71flowerchild,

HOWDY in Texas. I had some problems on the site yesterday. If I missed something
I will answer in Club Sheba tonight. If I can cover something let me know. 🙂
Keep little D and Jewel nice and cool. Poppy is sending hugs to you and them.

@taci,

Happy Trails in Cali. Hey do you know when Heidi’s next visit is? Just wondering.
Enjoy this time with your son soon it will be back to College. 🙂

Taci this reminds me of you. 🙂

@bichon18,

Good Morning in Florida how is your grandson? Amy my dad has a nurse. I visit every day
and I take my computer with me and do this thread with him gently sleeping. My Step-Mother
is getting better she has it all so she should be very well. Just a Step-Daughter thoughts.

I enjoy every moment with my dad so no biggie.

OZ is alright tonight we did have some light rain. Thank you Lord. 🙂 One more day before
it is over hopefully.

Amy you did a great job with Marla I love Marla and you could not go wrong in any dress
you brought. My daughter brought me two just because. 🙂 I have the yellow and pink. 🙂
Sending hugs to Little Ari and to you and Jerry. 🙂

Knowing Better Now

Our past can read like a document on what not to do, but we have the present and our future to make a change.

When we look back at the past, knowing what we know now, we often find it difficult to understand how we made the mistakes we made. This is because once we learn new information, it is nearly impossible to reenter the headspace we were in before we learned that information. And so we look back at parents who spanked their kids, for example, and wonder how they could have thought that was a good idea. Similarly, our personal pasts are full of mistakes we can’t believe we made. We did things then that we would never do now, and this is precisely because we have information now that we didn’t have, or weren’t able to access, then.

From ideas about how to raise children to how to treat the environment, our collective human past sometimes reads like a document on what not to do. In many ways, this is exactly as it should be. We learn from living and having experiences. It is from these past actions that we garnered the information that guides us to live differently now. Just so, in our personal lives, we probably had to have a few unsuccessful relationships or jobs, learning about our negative tendencies through them, in order to gain the wisdom we have now.

In order to live more peacefully with the past, it helps to remember that once we know better, we tend to do better. Prior to knowing, we generally do our best, and while it’s true that from the perspective of the present, our best doesn’t always seem good enough, we can at least give our past selves the benefit of the doubt. We did our best with what knowledge we had. Beyond this, we serve the greater good most effectively by not dwelling on the past, instead reigning our energy and knowledge into our present actions. It is here, in this moment, that we create our reality and ourselves anew, with our current knowledge and information.

@kittengirl,

@kittengirl,

Happy Birthday 🙂

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