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11 years ago
(Crosspost of this LiveJournal entry)
Just some random thoughts that were on my head today. Without any special context. I just want to share them.
There's something wonderful and amazing about children: they ask questions, regardless of how uncomfortable they may be for an adult. They see the world as it is, not filtered though rules etablished by society.
Sometimes, we should ask ourself some important questions: what would our child-self think about ourself when given the chance to meet our child-self today? Which dreams have we forgotten that should gain more importance in our life again? What habbits have we gained that aren't good but rather bad? How has society formed us and how to we interact with others. Would our self-us see us as a role model or rather dislike is?
There is no tendency in that question. Nor a good or bad one. We grow up and learn that things don't work the way we thought they do as a child. Living and growing up requires making decisions. Sometimes painful and compliacted ones. But still, that doesn't mean we can easily forget about our values. Sometimes we change, slowly but steadily. Gaining habits we always disliked. But due to the slow change we didn't notice.
But the question must also keep the good things in mind: what things did we achieve? What problems did we solve and which (good) influence do we have on the people surrounding us?
While asking ourself that it's easy to stumble upon all the wrong decisions we made and start to regret them. There's something we should remain ourself about in such cases: we made decisions back then based on the facts we knew and on our emotional life back then. Not based on the things we know now, today. It's okay to make mistakes. We learn from mistakes.
Do so, don't push thoughts about mistakes away. Embrace them, think about them, learn from then and then open up and make new decisions.
A decision we never made but procastinated until it's too late is one we will always be sorry about. And often a wasted chance to experience something new and wonderful - or learn from at least.
Just some random thoughts that were on my head today. Without any special context. I just want to share them.
There's something wonderful and amazing about children: they ask questions, regardless of how uncomfortable they may be for an adult. They see the world as it is, not filtered though rules etablished by society.
Sometimes, we should ask ourself some important questions: what would our child-self think about ourself when given the chance to meet our child-self today? Which dreams have we forgotten that should gain more importance in our life again? What habbits have we gained that aren't good but rather bad? How has society formed us and how to we interact with others. Would our self-us see us as a role model or rather dislike is?
There is no tendency in that question. Nor a good or bad one. We grow up and learn that things don't work the way we thought they do as a child. Living and growing up requires making decisions. Sometimes painful and compliacted ones. But still, that doesn't mean we can easily forget about our values. Sometimes we change, slowly but steadily. Gaining habits we always disliked. But due to the slow change we didn't notice.
But the question must also keep the good things in mind: what things did we achieve? What problems did we solve and which (good) influence do we have on the people surrounding us?
While asking ourself that it's easy to stumble upon all the wrong decisions we made and start to regret them. There's something we should remain ourself about in such cases: we made decisions back then based on the facts we knew and on our emotional life back then. Not based on the things we know now, today. It's okay to make mistakes. We learn from mistakes.
Do so, don't push thoughts about mistakes away. Embrace them, think about them, learn from then and then open up and make new decisions.
A decision we never made but procastinated until it's too late is one we will always be sorry about. And often a wasted chance to experience something new and wonderful - or learn from at least.
