The Paradoxes of June
A random blog of thoughts and questions, triggered by books, podcasts, conversations, and my own internal monologue. It seems June is a month for random ruminations, because I wrote this June blog two years ago and this one four years ago. I was having a conversation with a friend the other day and I had mentioned something about the past, and she said, “Why are you going back to the past? Forget about it.” And in the moment, I laughed and shrugged it off, but then it got me thinking. Sure, the past can be left behind, but only after we’ve examined and learned from it. Because it is the past that teaches us, our past actions predict our future behaviour, unless we’ve made a conscious effort to change it. It is the call to hastily ‘forgive and forget’ or ‘leave the past behind’ that does us a disservice, fails to teach us the lessons we need to learn. How can we understand ourselves if we don’t reflect on our past actions? The paradoxes of living: to learn or to let...
