This is a work in progress. I imagine ongoing for a long time.
On the never-ending road to understanding, both the 5 year old inner child curiosity and the older parent will be sharing their ongoing accumulation of information. Number 5’s curiosity will go searching while the older parent will have pre-established ideas/beliefs. Observations will be made and, where possible, tested and/or found that others have also observed the same, or different, in order that so-called “knowledge” obtained and shared. Hopefully truth will be revealed.
I believe that PERSONAL BELIEFS and OBSERVATIONS lead to WELL-BEING & FLOURISHING.
This is a listing of thoughts, feelings, “insights”, that I’ve used as guidance as I see, interpret, act in accordance with life.
Positives have a negative side, negatives have a positive side. Always look at both sides, as objectively as possible and then emphasize the positive as much as reasonable.
It’s not nice to try to fool mother nature…and we are part of mother nature.
There is always someone who’s older, younger, smarter, less caring, more caring, etc.
How will I feel about it one second from now, 10 years from now?
I’m not good at predicting the future….no matter how much I’ve tried.
Remember the 80-20 rule, many times you’ll get up to 80% of the benefit by exerting at least a 20% effort….act accordingly.
Helping others helps yourself….and accepting help from others can be helping them also.
The more I learn the more I realize that I don’t know.
I occasionally fall back on looking for the serenity to accept what I cannot change, the courage to change what can be changed and the wisdom to know one from the other.