Thursday, December 19, 2019
When You Can't Fix It
If we are traveling along a road using a map to find our way
and we make a wrong turn, we can blame the person who made the map, even if the
map is correct in its making. The map may indeed be wrong, but the fact remains
we must fix our mistake and get back on the right path. If we spend all our
time blaming the mapmaker for our wrong turn and we spend no time getting back
on the right path, we never reach our destination. We cannot change what we did
yesterday. We cannot change the history each of us creates every day. All of us
make mistakes. Not one of us who walks the earth is a perfect person. It is
when we begin to understand we all make mistakes we can begin to address what
we have done in the past and also address what others have done to us. When we
begin to understand we all make mistakes, we can then begin to forgive others
and forgive ourselves. Too often and in too many ways we let ourselves make
excuses about why we have made the mistakes we have made. Too often and in too
many ways we tell ourselves or others our mistakes are caused by others or
caused by circumstances beyond our control. However, if we make excuses then we
have not fixed or tried to fix our mistakes. Although we cannot change the
events we create every day after the day is over, we can always change what we
will do tomorrow. Although we cannot change history, we can apologize to all
the people we have hurt in the past. We can all try to make amends with others
without making any excuses. Although we cannot change our history, we can
change the effects of the history we create by never repeating the mistakes we
have made in the past.
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