{"id":20,"date":"2015-04-16T17:04:07","date_gmt":"2015-04-16T17:04:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.christiansdontbite.com\/?p=20"},"modified":"2015-04-16T17:04:07","modified_gmt":"2015-04-16T17:04:07","slug":"memory-lane-good-bad-and-ugly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christiansdontbite.com\/?p=20","title":{"rendered":"Memory Lane-Good, Bad and Ugly"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Last evening a good friend of mine from high school was here visiting his sick mother, so a few of us\u00a0got together.\u00a0 Some of these folks I haven’t seen in over 20 years.\u00a0 Times like this are great while they are happening and its fun to reminisce about the old days and laugh about times gone by.\u00a0 But for people like me, who think deeper thoughts than they really should sometimes, events like this bring up all sorts of feelings.<\/p>\n

Though I am not what you call “old” by societal standards, you still realize how fast time goes.\u00a0 Your parents always told you that time goes faster the older you get.\u00a0 As teens you “poo-pooed” that and just wanted to be 21.\u00a0 But, as with most things that they told me, they were right.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 This morning I started thinking about how different a person I am from then, but then conversely, how little I actually have changed.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 In some ways I don’t even remember the person I was in high school.\u00a0 I was very outgoing, but down deep pretty insecure.\u00a0 Aren’t most teenagers?\u00a0 But then I thought, has that really changed?\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Yes, I am more secure in myself now than I was then, but aren’t we all just nervous 13 year olds under the skin?<\/p>\n

Grown women worry about what their friends will think of them and if they are too fat.\u00a0 Grown men worry about whether the will be accepted by their peers or succeed.\u00a0\u00a0 The playing field may be different but the games we play with ourselves are the same.<\/p>\n

My Mom was 65 years old and near the end of her life and she was still playing mind games with herself.\u00a0 She said she was being punished because of how she took care of her Mother and Father in their failing years.\u00a0 I thought she was nuts.\u00a0 My Mom was the example of how to take care of your parents.\u00a0 She did more for them than anyone else in her family and shaved years off her life doing it.\u00a0 My Mom had a phobia about going to resturants and sitting alone because of something mean girls did to her in middle school.\u00a0 She carried this into her late adult life.\u00a0\u00a0 Yesterday, as I got ready to go meet my friends, I worried if my thighs looked fat.<\/p>\n

So when you chastise your young child or teen to not worry about what everyone else thinks, don’t be too hard on them.\u00a0 Yes, its a good lesson, but remember before you teach it, “physician-heal thyself!”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Last evening a good friend of mine from high school was here visiting his sick mother, so a few of us\u00a0got together.\u00a0 Some of these folks I haven’t seen in over 20 years.\u00a0 Times like this are great while they are happening and its fun to reminisce about the old days and laugh about times … <\/p>\n

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