My mother taught me similar messages. One that has stuck is “You’re not everyone else,” which she often told me when I was whining abut doing or having something that “everyone else” had or did. Thanks for the reminder of motherly wisdom!
Ha! Yes! Remember - 'if everyone was jumping out a ten story window would you?' Independent thinking is kinda kicked to the curb nowadays as young people seeks to be TikTok influencers.
Ha! Yes! Remember - 'if everyone was jumping out a ten story window would you?' Independent thinking is kinda kicked to the curb nowadays as young people seeks to be TikTok influencers.
Do you ever wish you could sit down and have a long chat with those stalwart Christian teachers, like C.S. Lewis, T.Austin-Sparks, Oswald Chambers and Tozer who left unchallengeable, non-wavering truth?
I love this and I take pride in the fact that I always leave places better than I found them because you instilled that in me! The underwear theory......no comment! ;) Hindsight has blown my mind as of late, and mysteries have been unraveled!!! xo
What a brilliant metaphor from the clean-underwear rule! I'm so thankful for the early training I received at home and at church, that the tides of time slowly landed me on the solid shore of better choices thus limiting irreparable regrets and painful hindsight. Not that I haven't made poor choices along the way, but the list of regrets is certainly shorter than it could have been.
Yes indeed! So many missteps and bad choices. Lots of learning curves. I am so grateful though that I managed to choose not to follow others jumping out the 10 story window my mother warned me about. Some mistakes are just too final. LOL!
You have no idea how this resonates with me! Maverick! Doer! Getterdoner! Honestly, I have done so much, so many things, unrelated things, in my life, in my mid-fifties if I had been looking for work I would have had to have four different resumes. Puppeteering doesn't seem to coordinate with web design or photo styling or publishing.
But here's the thing - even if I had been called upon to explain all the crazy unrelated things I have done, the reaction would be - deer in the headlights. I have been invisible most of my life - at least to outsiders. As though it would not be feasible for me - me - to have done so many things. So, yes if I were a beer drinker we could raise our glasses and laugh out loud at the critics and skeptics. They are so clueless!
This one resonated. There were quite a few sayings that for sure showed up later in life, some of which you mentioned. If she were still here, I'm sure she'd remind me of a few. And I would tell her she was so right. ~ Rosie
My mother taught me similar messages. One that has stuck is “You’re not everyone else,” which she often told me when I was whining abut doing or having something that “everyone else” had or did. Thanks for the reminder of motherly wisdom!
Ha! Yes! Remember - 'if everyone was jumping out a ten story window would you?' Independent thinking is kinda kicked to the curb nowadays as young people seeks to be TikTok influencers.
Ha! Yes! Remember - 'if everyone was jumping out a ten story window would you?' Independent thinking is kinda kicked to the curb nowadays as young people seeks to be TikTok influencers.
That C. S. Lewis quote hit home for me, Meema. As do most of his words. Thanks for sharing this with us.
Do you ever wish you could sit down and have a long chat with those stalwart Christian teachers, like C.S. Lewis, T.Austin-Sparks, Oswald Chambers and Tozer who left unchallengeable, non-wavering truth?
I'd be tongue tied
Well there's that, yes.😂
I love this and I take pride in the fact that I always leave places better than I found them because you instilled that in me! The underwear theory......no comment! ;) Hindsight has blown my mind as of late, and mysteries have been unraveled!!! xo
Always a reason for everything - we just don't know it without hindsight.
Truth 💘
What a brilliant metaphor from the clean-underwear rule! I'm so thankful for the early training I received at home and at church, that the tides of time slowly landed me on the solid shore of better choices thus limiting irreparable regrets and painful hindsight. Not that I haven't made poor choices along the way, but the list of regrets is certainly shorter than it could have been.
Yes indeed! So many missteps and bad choices. Lots of learning curves. I am so grateful though that I managed to choose not to follow others jumping out the 10 story window my mother warned me about. Some mistakes are just too final. LOL!
My best life lesson comes from Keith Richards.
"If you're going to kick authority in the teeth, you may as well use both feet."
I'm not being flippant. I was told by a lot of people that I couldn't do a lot of things.
Proving them wrong, and rubbing their faces in it, was fun.
You have no idea how this resonates with me! Maverick! Doer! Getterdoner! Honestly, I have done so much, so many things, unrelated things, in my life, in my mid-fifties if I had been looking for work I would have had to have four different resumes. Puppeteering doesn't seem to coordinate with web design or photo styling or publishing.
But here's the thing - even if I had been called upon to explain all the crazy unrelated things I have done, the reaction would be - deer in the headlights. I have been invisible most of my life - at least to outsiders. As though it would not be feasible for me - me - to have done so many things. So, yes if I were a beer drinker we could raise our glasses and laugh out loud at the critics and skeptics. They are so clueless!
This one resonated. There were quite a few sayings that for sure showed up later in life, some of which you mentioned. If she were still here, I'm sure she'd remind me of a few. And I would tell her she was so right. ~ Rosie
Ha! 😂