Still smarting from a misjudgement that created some havoc over the Thanksgiving holiday, I am recognizing that the only way forward is to put one good foot in front of another with positive action.
What I thought was a good choice from my perspective turned out to be a negative choice from the perspective of a number of other people. This had a painful ripple effect that I've been considering for the past few days. How could I have misjudged the situation to this degree? Clearly I misjudged my role in the situation, and did not take into account the differing perspectives that exist. I simply acted thinking that everyone thinks like me and has the same experiences as me, and that is not the case.
I've expressed my apologies. I've learned a valuable lesson, and now it's time to move forward with greater understanding one step in front of the other. Good actions with this new knowledge will make a difference in this situation.
In the past few months, there have been many signals of change in the world around me--these signals were nudging me in a new direction and then this holiday misjudgement was the giant push into another new stage in life--a stage so new that I'm not even ready to write about it. In many ways, it's like opening the door into a new land--I'm taking it in, watching, listening, and treading gently as I tiptoe into this stage of life, a stage I'll be reading about, studying, and thinking deeply about.
When I entered other new stages of life, there was greater camaraderie. Those stages were popular, known stages of life that many friends and colleagues had entered or were entering. The stage I'm entering into now is less known or shared because it is a more subtle, modern stage--one where there isn't a worn path, but instead a lot of new travelers, pioneers who are making their steps along this relatively new path of living.
I enjoy a challenge and look forward to change, so now that I recognize that this is a new stage of living, I am looking forward to traversing this trail with interest, love, compassion, empathy, and success. Like every stage I've entered throughout life, I want to give this stage the best of me with the knowledge that my travels will meet struggle as well as success along the way.
We all err in life, and if that error was made with good intentions and the knowledge of missteps, we can use that error to forward our living with positivity and greater knowledge and good living. Onward.
What I thought was a good choice from my perspective turned out to be a negative choice from the perspective of a number of other people. This had a painful ripple effect that I've been considering for the past few days. How could I have misjudged the situation to this degree? Clearly I misjudged my role in the situation, and did not take into account the differing perspectives that exist. I simply acted thinking that everyone thinks like me and has the same experiences as me, and that is not the case.
I've expressed my apologies. I've learned a valuable lesson, and now it's time to move forward with greater understanding one step in front of the other. Good actions with this new knowledge will make a difference in this situation.
In the past few months, there have been many signals of change in the world around me--these signals were nudging me in a new direction and then this holiday misjudgement was the giant push into another new stage in life--a stage so new that I'm not even ready to write about it. In many ways, it's like opening the door into a new land--I'm taking it in, watching, listening, and treading gently as I tiptoe into this stage of life, a stage I'll be reading about, studying, and thinking deeply about.
When I entered other new stages of life, there was greater camaraderie. Those stages were popular, known stages of life that many friends and colleagues had entered or were entering. The stage I'm entering into now is less known or shared because it is a more subtle, modern stage--one where there isn't a worn path, but instead a lot of new travelers, pioneers who are making their steps along this relatively new path of living.
I enjoy a challenge and look forward to change, so now that I recognize that this is a new stage of living, I am looking forward to traversing this trail with interest, love, compassion, empathy, and success. Like every stage I've entered throughout life, I want to give this stage the best of me with the knowledge that my travels will meet struggle as well as success along the way.
We all err in life, and if that error was made with good intentions and the knowledge of missteps, we can use that error to forward our living with positivity and greater knowledge and good living. Onward.