Rafiki the monkey takes his staff and smacks Simba on the
head. “Ow! Geez! What was that for?” he asks. “It does not matter, it’s in the past,” returns Rafiki.
Simba says, “Yeah, but it still hurts.” Rafiki replies, “Yes, the past can
hurt. But the way I see it, you
can either run from it, or learn from it.”
The next time Rafiki swings his staff, Simba ducks. Then he takes away Rafiki’s staff.
If I’m reading Neil right, my past hurts me in the present,
all the more if I don’t stop to deal with it. If I don’t, my emotional responses (and probably, my
choices) will always be the same, tainted by whatever hurt me. I’ll do things that aren’t good for me
and won’t understand why I can’t break out of that cycle.
How do we deal with those things? Neil wrote today about talking it through and becoming more
aware of what’s going on inside during those moments. I’ll work on practicing that, and maybe tomorrow we’ll get a
bit more instruction.
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