I also like to write about lessons learned, things I might not want to do and other things I have learned through the school of hard knocks. And, for whatever reason I get knocked around pretty hard...but not as hard as many.
When I was in the Navy, after EVERY exercise, we were required to write up a lessons learned summary. Great exercise in itself. What went well, what didn't. That sort of thing.
Now, I often sit and try to evaluate what is going on in my life and think what I could have or should have learned from this or that experience.
I have a long list of things I learned while training for and finishing triathlons, doing ultraruns - the Europeans call them super marathons. I want to share them here at TBOK.
Today in my morning reading I came across four endless cycles.
1. Generations come and go but the earth lasts forever - If the earth has been here billions of years, it is terribly presumptous of the human race to think they can destroy it. Wouldn't we likely destroy ourselves first and the earth continue to exist? If the earth is a creation (this is what I think) isn't there a higher being in charge and who do we think that we are that we can mess up an eternal plan?
2. The sun rises and sets and hurries back to rise again - isn't it cool that the sun always comes up each morning? What's to keep that from continuing to happen?
3. The wind blows round and round, north and south, east and west, and sometimes in violent circles - who can catch the wind?
4. All streams flow into the sea but the sea never fills up. The water ends up back at the source of the streams to start flowing again - there's an order to it all, no?
I suppose what I want to say is that it is not us humans who are in charge. Oh, we can interfere with these cycles perhaps, but we will NOT stop them.
My source...King Solomon.
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