Absit injuria verbis
For all the heartache and misery that human being can go through in their lives - and it is clear that som people seem to have more than their fair share of trouble - then there may be great comfort in the three powerful but understated words :"Nothing is wasted". Everything that one experiences, good or bad, can be used in a positive way.
Mentally, if we were able to see our lives in the form of a clean white peace of paper before us and were to imagine that someone had asked us to put down on the paper some of the things in our past (or even things in the present) that we don't like or aren´t happy about; things that we don´t like that we have done to others; things we wish we had done; things that we wish we hadn't done - we´d be tempted, I think, to write them on the other side of the clean white sheet.
For some people, sadly, it is clearly diffucult to overcome many of the things that life has thrown at them. I would never minimize the enormity of what some people go through and believe that, in many instances, professional help should be sought in an attempt to enable that person to lead a near-normal life. Rather, I am talking about the less traumatic events in our lives;sometimes the very little things that keep coming up from the past to haunt us.
What if I shared some of my sorrow, my pain, the mistakes I have made? You would think differently of me then. Think about something in your own life that is too painful to go on the front of the clean white page as it would spoil what people thought of you or what you thought of yourself. How could you possibly turn that around? Maybe the experience that you regret or are ashamed of can help other people. Nothing is wasted. We can't change anything in our lives that has happened but we do have the wonderful opportunity to use our negative events as something positive.
- Jackie D - My prodigal son
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Mentally, if we were able to see our lives in the form of a clean white peace of paper before us and were to imagine that someone had asked us to put down on the paper some of the things in our past (or even things in the present) that we don't like or aren´t happy about; things that we don´t like that we have done to others; things we wish we had done; things that we wish we hadn't done - we´d be tempted, I think, to write them on the other side of the clean white sheet.
For some people, sadly, it is clearly diffucult to overcome many of the things that life has thrown at them. I would never minimize the enormity of what some people go through and believe that, in many instances, professional help should be sought in an attempt to enable that person to lead a near-normal life. Rather, I am talking about the less traumatic events in our lives;sometimes the very little things that keep coming up from the past to haunt us.
What if I shared some of my sorrow, my pain, the mistakes I have made? You would think differently of me then. Think about something in your own life that is too painful to go on the front of the clean white page as it would spoil what people thought of you or what you thought of yourself. How could you possibly turn that around? Maybe the experience that you regret or are ashamed of can help other people. Nothing is wasted. We can't change anything in our lives that has happened but we do have the wonderful opportunity to use our negative events as something positive.
- Jackie D - My prodigal son
Alla böckerna är snart färdiglästa! Vad ska jag läsa härnäst?
Ciao!!
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