At the beginning of this year I decided to keep a running list of the "life lessons" I learned in 2008. I have posted them throughout the year in this blog as I have realized them. To catch up and review my list to date click on the following posts:
8 Days In
To Be a Waitress and Other Updates
Still Making My List
Here's a few more...
9. I am gullible! All the writing jobs I got so excited about and even blogged about turned out to be SCAMS! Three in a row. I figured I had nothing to loose by applying and following the application processes through. Nothing to loose perhaps but a scosh of pride. However despite the scammers I do believe I am a bit better for the experience. And I do have an authentic opportunity on the fire I will be keeping quieter until it transpires (if it does).
10. It's okay to make mistakes - even major ones - if you allow the mistakes to make you. In other, way overused terminology freakin' learn from them. You'd think I'd have learned this one by now, but this year it was amplified. :)
11. Until you find yourself and know who you are and where you are going, you'll never be able to lead any other. Simple in concept, profound in life experience.
12. It's okay to be self-centered in moderation. If you don't take care of yourself how can you authentically give to others for any sustainable amount of time?
13. Friends are proven and/or fail in times of struggle and faultering. The results of a true test of friendship will unceasingly surprise you.
14. Don't give up on a difficult time or process. Never give up. It's always worth the fight, victory and even defeat.
Sending my cyber love to you all. Until next time...
Wednesday, November 12, 2008
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lose not loose.
Learning from your mistakes will never be overused. It is impossible.
Regarding the finding of one's self and knowing who we are. I think it is rather simple. We are products of our parents. In the grand scheme of things, are subtle nuances enough to make us different than that? While it may seem profound, perhaps you are just discovering your true persona, which with at a bit of discussion and knowledge of our parents, I bet you discover that the apple didn't fall far from the tree. Scary at first, yes I suppose so, given the culture of the past 40 years in the US, but is it so terrible to reflect our parents lives with an ever so modest twist of our own?
It seems you have grown a bit in the last year given that life lessons #1 & 2 are about alcohol consumption where dormitory and roommate could easily be substituted and it would appear as if a freshman at some University had wrote it. But yet towards the end there are some deeper thoughts. Keep the thoughts beyond everyday life going. Don't be discouraged that others haven't gone to this level. Few have I have discovered. But even those of us that have there are limits. After all the kids are hungry, the house is a mess, and the doorbell just rang (now what). What I do wonder is if the known theologians and philosophers had children.
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