surprises | lessons
"what surprises you most about humankind?"
That they get bored with childhood, they rush to grow up and then long to be children again.
That they lose their health to make money and then lose their money to restore their health.
That by thinking anxiously about the future, they forget the present such that they live in neither the present nor the future.
That they live as if they will never die, and die as if they had never lived.
"what are some life's lessons to be learnt?"
To learn we cannot make anyone love us. what we can do is to let ourselves be loved.
To learn that it is not good to compare ourselves to others.
To learn that a rich person is not one who has the most but is one who needs the least.
To learn that it only takes a few seconds to open profound wounds in persons we love, and it takes many years to heal them.
To learn to forgive by practicing forgiveness.
To learn that there are persons who love us dearly, but simply do not know how to express or show their feelings.
To learn that two people can look at the same thing and see it differently, with neither being wrong.
To learn that it is not always enough that we be forgiven by others. But that we must forgive ourselves.
jacq | 12:29:00 AM
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