Embrace your past
15Sunday 27 December, 2015 by Uncle Spike
This is so me…
I have had a checkered, yet wonderful, interesting, sometimes successful life, with more drama-filled emotional rollercoaster rides than I care to mention, always slightly chaotic, certainly different, plenty of crap choices made and loads of great moves, and yet pretty much could summarise it as one heck of a fun past to my life.
I also know that to accept and embrace it is the very key to a fulfilling future.
Thought of the day – embrace your past 🙂
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Uncle Spike's Adventures 
“I beg you…to have patience with everything unresolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves as if they were locked rooms or books written in a very foreign language. Don’t search for the answers, which could not be given to you now, because you would not be able to live them. And the point is to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps then, someday far in the future, you will gradually, without ever knowing it, live your way into the answers.” ~Rainer Maria Rilke
Wise man.
Happy New Year Unc, to you and yours!
🙂 m & jb
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Like that!
Thanks. Spike
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It’s the True-true!
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What a great description of your life.
Certainly not boring!
And that’s a good thing, in my opinion!
Here’s to much happiness and good health in the coming year!
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Lovely – Uncle Spike this made me think of some of my bad experiences and it’s true – they have made me the person I am today…even though some of them I am not happy with.
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Exactly my point. I have bad times, just like everyone, but the strength to persevere often comes from within, and that’s largely from recalling how I have survived worse. Bizarrely, I would firmly state that bereavement (twice) is definitely, how do yıou say, ‘character building’!
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I agree the strength often comes from within. We don’t know how strong we are until we have to deal with very sad events. I am sorry to hear you have had two bereavements.
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Such is life Sue; but equally they are very special times too, in a strange sort of way.
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They sure are wise words .. Embrace the past
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One tries; not always succeeding – maybe next time 🙂
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Not always easy to embrace certain aspects of our past ~ but wise words to aim for. happy New Year!
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One cannot change the past (tried; didn’t work), so my take on it is I might as well accept it, deal with it, learn from it (where appropriate), and move forward ‘with it’ (coz it never leaves you either.
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Wise words, Uncle Spike! Wise words.
Linda
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If only I could always ‘do’ as I ‘say’ 🙂
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This one is so true
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