Learning from the past is one of the most important things in life. It’s been said that to continually do the same thing over and over and expecting different results is the definition of insanity. In various aspects of our lives whether it be professional or personal a number of us can relate to Bill Murray in the movie, “Groundhog Day.” We know we’re not where we want to be, things do not feel right to us at all. But heaven help us when we try to understand what’s going on and how to fix it. We can’t see the forest for the trees as it were. We do not see the repetitive patterns our lives seem to take. We take the same types of jobs and feel undervalued and empty. We get into relationships with the same types of people and wonder why the life keeps getting sucked out of us.
This is way more than the woman who continually finds herself involved in abusive relationships. A man can just as easily have partners for whatever reason who are emotionally unavailable or psychologically unready for any kind of romantic involvement. Anyone, man or woman can have a revolving door with lovers where only the faces change but the same problems are still showing up.
It is up to us to take time to see the patterns in our lives. I hate the term navel-gazing with a passion. While I will agree that someone can suffer from paralysis from over analysis a little healthy introspection never hurt anyone. If that is not the case how do we ever learn from our mistakes in life? How do we ever achieve any degree of wisdom about who we are, where we’ve been, and where we go from here?
One of the purposes of this blog is to allow me to sort things out, to see the patterns and point myself in a better direction. Anyone and everyone is welcome to come along for the ride. J
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