One of the forms of awareness or intelligence that children - and some adults - mostly lack is the understanding that every one of our actions has consequences. So one of the jobs we as parents (or family members, or teachers) take on is to instill this awareness. And as always, the most compelling evidence we can offer is from our own lives.
And as we do so, it's impossible to avoid reflecting on how well or how poorly we have learned this lesson ourselves.
Each of our lives is created by a fantastically elaborate web of decisions, and one of the truly fascinating things is that some of what seemed like poor choices at the time now prove to have played an utterly unforeseeable and crucial part in the composition of the fabric, and some actions that looked brilliant were likewise equally unforeseeable in their true effect.
And here I am imagining I can see the whole picture at this point.
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