Sometimes I lay down in my bed at night and just think.
I think about what life would be like if I didn't make certain stupid decisions. If I got all the things I had wanted over the years. If all the things I wanted so much to happen, actually worked out.
I think about how far I've come and all the many things that have passed me. The good. The bad. The weird... haha. (How was I supposed to know I would lose all my Princess Points if I started a marker brawl during study hall??)
You know, I've made a lot of mistakes. I've smashed a statue of Jesus, trying to see if he would fly. I've let some words slip that would have been left best unsaid. I've been less awesome than my normal AMAZING self. Ha, I also have this thing with humility...
But within those mistakes, there were lessons. Lessons that I wouldn't have learned or seen without the stupid mistakes. Because being human, I can be really hard headed. (Women.... jk.. that's sexist). And I can only learn these important lesson by going through the pain.
I've learned that I don't have to make everyone happy. That I can say no. That I have limits when it comes to juggling. That I can get a little TOO competitive (never take me to Vegas). That I am under no obligation to be the same person I was yesterday. That Jesus in statue form cannot indeed fly. That I am not in life alone, even if I feel like it.
Everyone has lessons they learn. But not everyone applies them. You know what they say, only a fool does the same thing over and over again but expecting a different result.
Most important thing I have learned this past year is the one piece of thought I leave this post with;
I am under no obligation to be the same person I was last year, last week, yesterday, or even today.
I was thinking about the saying "only a fool does the same thing over and over again but expecting a different result". The first time I heard that I got it; you have to look a better way, you can't continue doing the same.
ReplyDeleteBut what happens when there is no other way...for example when you're learning to play the piano you do the same thing over and over again, expecting a different result, hoping that will arrive the day when you'll touch that key the right way in the right time. The same goes with exercise,.
It's true, some things require a different aproach, just throwing a Jesus a statue will never make it fly. But also sometimes continue doing the same thing is the only way to perfection.
As someone said, “That which we persist in doing becomes easier for us to do—not that the nature of the thing is changed, but that our power to do is increased.”
Well, just saying...I mean typing...