One of the secret benefits of being a parent - or, I suspect , being a teacher - is that you may get the chance to teach your young ones great ideas that you may consistently fail to embody yourself.
By sharing the idea, it gets a new life, a brand new opportunity to enter into the world outside your mind, outside your life. Perhaps with a different and better outcome.
When my son was, oh hell, not sure, eight? he went through some kind of stupid bullshit head-butting with some of his friends, and as I drove him to school one day, he was seething at their bad behavior and the injustice of it all.
I told him, "your anger doesn't hurt those guys at all. It just burns inside you, eating you away. I'm not saying you should take shit from people, but when it comes to grudges, the first one to get over it wins."
Having said that to him, I then needed to look at who I was not forgiving. Good-sized list.
Working on it.
By sharing the idea, it gets a new life, a brand new opportunity to enter into the world outside your mind, outside your life. Perhaps with a different and better outcome.
When my son was, oh hell, not sure, eight? he went through some kind of stupid bullshit head-butting with some of his friends, and as I drove him to school one day, he was seething at their bad behavior and the injustice of it all.
I told him, "your anger doesn't hurt those guys at all. It just burns inside you, eating you away. I'm not saying you should take shit from people, but when it comes to grudges, the first one to get over it wins."
Having said that to him, I then needed to look at who I was not forgiving. Good-sized list.
Working on it.
2 comments:
easier said than done,
but certainly worth striving for
Is this not wisdom?
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