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I was going through my old files, sorting through it with the intent of ridding it of non-essentials. This made me think. Non-essentials --– if you think about it you will understand that there are indeed plenty in your store of life and living… the accumulated bits and pieces that you might be better off without. But of course you wouldn’t want to deal with that when you are young for the simple fact that you are so attached to it. Even if conscience tells you to be done with it.
The thing is when you get older or have grown older you get this feeling that something inside of you has changed. What was isn't anymore. What may have been important to you back then may not be anymore many years after. It’s sad but its importance or relevance has waned or diminished, its attraction fizzled out or maybe gone in some. It seemed to have lost its life. Holding on to it, you get to realize, has now become dead weight.
So I am now on a fresh and determined journey of ridding my store of dead weight. Some people may have a name for it but I am calling it change.
Change is something you cannot fight. Maybe you can delay it, dilute it, mask it, or give it another name perhaps but change it still is. And I’m starting with my files.
This morning’s activity though came to a brief halt when…….
I stumbled on this piece of writing paper and on it were printed these words. Now it made no mention of its source or of who wrote it so I guessed that it was quoted from something. Here it is by an anonymous writer. A wonderful piece that made sense back then, still does in the present and I guess will continue to do its job of imparting its precious wisdom to anyone who stops awhile, pay attention, and learn.
Quoting…….
UNEXPECTED TEACHERS
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Some of us have our prejudices, some of us have our biases. Some of us, no matter how old we become, remain childish. We continue to select only those things we want to listen to.
But in doing this, we also lose.
Everybody is in the same boat. All of us do not know everything but, we can listen.
Because we have a lot to learn from people for whom we think we have no respect.
Who are the people for whom we have no respect? For whom we have incorrigible biases? People for who we think we have nothing to learn from?
Think well and hard.
We will have a lot to learn from these unexpected teachers.
(Author Unknown)
Unquote.
Have a great and blessed day, folks. Siksik, liglig, at umaapaw pa!
I was going through my old files, sorting through it with the intent of ridding it of non-essentials. This made me think. Non-essentials --– if you think about it you will understand that there are indeed plenty in your store of life and living… the accumulated bits and pieces that you might be better off without. But of course you wouldn’t want to deal with that when you are young for the simple fact that you are so attached to it. Even if conscience tells you to be done with it.
The thing is when you get older or have grown older you get this feeling that something inside of you has changed. What was isn't anymore. What may have been important to you back then may not be anymore many years after. It’s sad but its importance or relevance has waned or diminished, its attraction fizzled out or maybe gone in some. It seemed to have lost its life. Holding on to it, you get to realize, has now become dead weight.
So I am now on a fresh and determined journey of ridding my store of dead weight. Some people may have a name for it but I am calling it change.
Change is something you cannot fight. Maybe you can delay it, dilute it, mask it, or give it another name perhaps but change it still is. And I’m starting with my files.
This morning’s activity though came to a brief halt when…….
I stumbled on this piece of writing paper and on it were printed these words. Now it made no mention of its source or of who wrote it so I guessed that it was quoted from something. Here it is by an anonymous writer. A wonderful piece that made sense back then, still does in the present and I guess will continue to do its job of imparting its precious wisdom to anyone who stops awhile, pay attention, and learn.
Quoting…….
UNEXPECTED TEACHERS
.
Some of us have our prejudices, some of us have our biases. Some of us, no matter how old we become, remain childish. We continue to select only those things we want to listen to.
But in doing this, we also lose.
Everybody is in the same boat. All of us do not know everything but, we can listen.
Because we have a lot to learn from people for whom we think we have no respect.
Who are the people for whom we have no respect? For whom we have incorrigible biases? People for who we think we have nothing to learn from?
Think well and hard.
We will have a lot to learn from these unexpected teachers.
(Author Unknown)
Unquote.
Have a great and blessed day, folks. Siksik, liglig, at umaapaw pa!
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