Some folk like to get all tangled up in semantics. Sometimes I am one of them.
But when it comes to Do-Overs I pretty much believe Life is full of Do-Overs and a second chance is a D-Over.
If it were not then how could we ever progress?
What do New Year’s Eve, Birthdays, September, and the first day of each new season have in common?
It is all about being able to re-do.
Popular saying: There are no-do overs in Life but there are second chances.
As you know I believe Re-do and Second Chances are exactly the same thing.
A baby learning to walk takes missteps. Do we tell that baby ‘No re-dos.’ Of course not. At some point there is a redo. Every great inventor had re-dos, sometimes a thousand times or more until they got it right.
Perfection is never achieved but we can and will re-do. And so it will be for ever. Humans are not the only creatures to re-do. Technically every living organism does a re-do, even at a cellular level and that is how mutations develop. Intrinsic changes that help us adapt to our environment. To survive.
And that is what happens on our journey. We re-do.
As a wanna be golfer I think Life is Like a Game of Golf.
Sometimes you play along and get to the 18th hole and shake your head wondering what went wrong.
Sometimes you play along and get to the 18th hole and shake your head wondering what went right.
But all it takes is one good stroke to keep you coming back. That one good step for the baby keeps it trying.
Trying to do that again and figuring next time you will remember what and how you did it.
Fact is, sometimes you just do it. If you are dieting you can follow all the rules; journal, measure, and weigh, plan, and somehow still come up short. Although consistent effort will tell in the long run. Sometimes you skim by, barely following rules, and are rewarded. Go figure.
Until death, we all get to Re-do somehow. It doesn’t take a New Year, new season, new month or even a new day. A Re-do, re-commitment, can take place in a new second or minute.
In a second you can decide to re-do your diet, your work, your commitment to your relationship, to yourself.
The ability to RE-DO is Hope. And hope is what Life is about. Hope is believing there is something better. And I think ‘better’ can only be done by re-doing, Learning, improving.
RE- DO AND BE GENUINELY KIND TO YOURSELF
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