Selected Life Lesson
Never go to bed angry. Always end with love you or good night.
-Kendra C’s Life Lesson from Des Moines, Iowa
Richard’s Thoughts…
After the past ten days, there aren’t many lessons that are worth sharing, so I wanted to keep it simple this week.
Kendra’s lesson, and mine is simple: love those around you. Always.
Last week we, sadly, have another moment to remember when we lost our innocence. As a marathoner, my heart breaks for multiple reasons for what happened in Boston.
I went back and found something I wrote in 2009 about terrorism, hate, and hope. I thought it appropriate to share it again:
Selected Life Lesson
Always be available; if only to listen.
-Lola S’ Life Lesson from Des Moines, Iowa
Richard’s Thoughts…
I hate being at dinner or coffee with a friend and they can’t seem to put there phone down. There are times when I am moments away from either screaming or just walking out completely.
It amazes me how many people, parents or otherwise, push strollers down the street while talking on their cell phones. Here is a promise to my future child: I will not do that. While I don’t yet have a child, I want to be present and in the moment and not on my phone. I want to be and feel human.
My friend Teal gave one of the speeches at my high school graduation and the title was,
“The Precious Present.” And that is how we need to live. In the moment.
With the ones we love. And with the ones that love us.
This week, focus on putting down your phones, tablets, and laptops and be present.
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Change is one of those things that will forever and always be a constant in life. It will always be there. Sometimes in the form of a blessing. Sometimes in a curse.
But that change is inevitable means we can either embrace it, take it, or change the change.
Parents are special in that they get to see all the changes their children go through from infants, to little children, to young adults, and then adults. I have changed a lot in my 29 years. But in a lot of ways, I am who I always was. Except there have been some times in the past six years, where I wasn’t me.
Change does happen over time, and in my life, I didn’t see it happening. But I was changing. And not in a good way. I lost who I was.
It took hitting rock bottom for me to see it. And once I did, I began to re-embrace me, the real Richard.
In Life As a House, George says:
“You know the great thing, though, is that change can be so constant you don’t even feel the difference until there is one. It can be so slow that you don’t even notice that your life is better or worse, until it is. Or it can just blow you away, make you something different in an instant. It happened to me.”
And it’s true. Change is hard to feel when it happens a little at a time until you get to your destination and you don’t even know who you are and how you got there.
What is my grand ‘ol lesson for you now? Listen.
Listen to yourself. Listen to those around you. And as you listen, reflect:
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