Wondering

Been wondering about the power of the messages we think we got through family, teachers, friends,  messages which might have little to no connection to anything ever voiced.  How many times did we misinterpret something because of where an inflection fell or garbled body language or because we were feeling stressed or unhappy & completely took what was said the wrong way, then believed it for years, even decades?

We all do.  

It's the nature of the human condition - to mess things up, even when we have the best intentions.  

One of the few things I know for sure is that WHAT we know is a teensiest tiniest sliver of a sliver of what there is to be known - and most of that humans mess up by thinking we know it all.

Imagine how different life on the planet would be if we considered as suspect all the messages we use to set the gps of our personal life.  

How many of us have discovered that mapquest.com is NOT the most reliable way to get driving directions, that it should always be backed up by a long, hard look at a MAP of where we are & where we are going?  

The same is true with life.  How many times do I figure out my next destination using information already in my head, info which - in many instances, in many ways - has been messed up, either from the its beginning or over the years?  

More & more I find that the smartest thing for me to do is to clear out the old info, take a fresh look at where I am & where I want to be, and plot a course based on that information, not well-intentioned gobblety-gook.