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TEACHABLE MOMENTS
Tuesday, February 16, 2021 - daily column #6670
I’ve learned.
I am trying to retrain me.
You know what I mean. When we teach valued lessons, teachable moments hold deeper purpose, instill ourselves anew, re-learn forgotten truths, or grasp them for the first time.
I was expecting something – from a friend, family member, or any stranger. No point; nothing to see, no words heard, no note. Silence. 8.0 billion didn’t care, no worries.
Two didn’t.
That mattered.
Absent what I anticipated – did they not care or not know, did they know and deliberately do nothing?
That’s illogical – getting emotional about something non-existent, which I have no power to manifest.
More importantly, I must not question whether they did that purposefully to be hurtful, but whether I do the same to others?
Do I withhold to be hurtful, or is it evidence I don’t care?
Reader feedback:
“Cold outside, alone inside” is profoundly saddening, but remember, to paraphrase GOT, “golf is coming”. I don’t think I have ever looked forward to the next season as much I do this season. Ooh! Also, “dining-with-someone-other-than-someone-in-your-immediate-household...is coming!” I am leaning forward, towards all the good things to come, RH, Calgary, AB
HAPPY VALENTINE’S DAY ……at least you are healthy and can still see, AN, Calgary, AB
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