So folks, I've been out and about over the last few weeks and so lost the thread of where I was and what I was doing...
SEE - I'm into giving excuses almost immediately.
Sometimes things are just the way they are - nothing more, nothing less.
Life moves on and personal situations change from moment to moment.
If we're honest all we can ever really deal with is the now. True we can create fantasies about the future and work towards bringing them into being - AND of course we have to accept responsibility for our past, after all that is what has brought us to this moment, but all we can ever interact with is the NOW which surrounds each and every one of us.
Having said all that isn't interesting to notice how excuses can become a way to direct blame.
I wonder how many people use other people's choices and behaviours as the excuse for their own in-actions?
SEE - I'm into giving excuses almost immediately.
Sometimes things are just the way they are - nothing more, nothing less.
Life moves on and personal situations change from moment to moment.
If we're honest all we can ever really deal with is the now. True we can create fantasies about the future and work towards bringing them into being - AND of course we have to accept responsibility for our past, after all that is what has brought us to this moment, but all we can ever interact with is the NOW which surrounds each and every one of us.
Having said all that isn't interesting to notice how excuses can become a way to direct blame.
I wonder how many people use other people's choices and behaviours as the excuse for their own in-actions?
It's not my fault I've been out of the loop but it is because of THEM
and the way THEY have intruded on my time, emotions and energy!
Technorati Tags: THEM, choice, reesponsibilityand the way THEY have intruded on my time, emotions and energy!
Taking this thinking further isn't it interesting that the moment we can apportion blame to someone else we are able to feel some sense of justification for our own behaviours.
They MADE me angry.... They NEEDED me to... They GOT in my way...
This "THEY" are the anonymous 'some ones' who steal our time, drain our energies and take our attention.
It is often much easier to blame THEM for doing these terrible things than to accept that we made the choices which allowed them to do what ever it was that we now have to apologise for.
THEY can, of course, INSPIRE and CHALLENGE and GUIDE - and just as it is easy for some of us to 'blame THEM' for holding us back, there are those who assume that without 'THEM' they as creative and wonderful individuals would not have achieved all that they have.
Are we becoming a society which frequently abdicates personal responsibility to an amorphous THEM whilst at the same time denies our own creativity because as individuals we are 'not one of THEM'.
THEM - the demons of procrastination!
THEM - the angels of inspiration!
THEM - the YOU others seek to blame or venerate
Alan
They MADE me angry.... They NEEDED me to... They GOT in my way...
This "THEY" are the anonymous 'some ones' who steal our time, drain our energies and take our attention.
It is often much easier to blame THEM for doing these terrible things than to accept that we made the choices which allowed them to do what ever it was that we now have to apologise for.
THEY can, of course, INSPIRE and CHALLENGE and GUIDE - and just as it is easy for some of us to 'blame THEM' for holding us back, there are those who assume that without 'THEM' they as creative and wonderful individuals would not have achieved all that they have.
Are we becoming a society which frequently abdicates personal responsibility to an amorphous THEM whilst at the same time denies our own creativity because as individuals we are 'not one of THEM'.
THEM - the demons of procrastination!
THEM - the angels of inspiration!
THEM - the YOU others seek to blame or venerate
Alan
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