How Do You Know It's Not Good For You?
Revisiting an old post in difficult times
Today’s post is a revisit of a post I wrote almost three years ago, but it seems to me that at this time, we need a reminder of it, or rather the parable it contains. I’ve been thinking about it a lot over the last couple of weeks and so I thought it was time that I re-shared it with you.
Ever since I turned forty, I have stopped worrying about a lot of things that are simply out of my control. It’s because when I was forty I married someone and six weeks later the marriage was over. When you marry someone you go into something with really good intentions, and so it seemed to me if even something as positive and happy as a beautiful wedding and marriage could go wrong so quickly, then really there isn’t much we can control in life. And so I stopped trying to. I just accept now the things that come, the things that go, that the tide rolls in and brings good things, and the tide rolls out and takes things away, that what remains is what is meant to stick. The rest is no longer ours to w…