Our LIFE

 

After 77 years of life, what have I learned...   and what might I have done differently?

LEARNED

I have maintained my own integrity in the sense that I never allowed myself to be told what to do, other than the six years I spent in the military.

I have always told the truth, kissed no one's ass and maintained loyalty to those who maintained loyalty to me.

So, through these actions, I have learned that self is the most important...  take care of self so that you can take care of those who are important to you.

Some may say that forgiveness is what we should learn and while that is important, one never really forgives...  over time, one simply sees that the action perpetrated against a person is no longer important.

DONE DIFFERENTLY

This one is difficult in that there are all sorts of things, actions, behaviors, etc., that we wished we had not done or done differently...  but that is the wrong way to look at it.

First of all, one must believe that there is some sort of creator out there, not necessarily our religious God.  For me, this is easy to believe because of the complexity of the universe...  that could not have happened randomly or by random chaos.  It had to have been designed.

With that in mind, it is relatively easy to believe that our future has already been seen, therefore, whatever we do, we were supposed to have done in order to get us to the point where we are now.

In other words, we have become that which we were supposed to have become from the getgo.