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June 1, 2020•Daily Kind Quotes, God, Self-development

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Your comment brings it down to the core message. Exactly! So many are quick in blaming others for their own problems but not looking at themselves and considering that they need to take action for a change. Having a good day, Gary. It is a holiday over here and I really enjoy it. It is gorgeous. Will hop over to your blog in the evening, checking on how you are doing 😊

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You hit the nail on the head Erika. Laying blame is little more than delegating responsibility = not having to take responsibility for anything. Making mistakes is a wonderful opportunity to learn and grow … but if we never admit to making any mistakes ……?

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Precisely, Colin! That’s the point again: Taking responsibility. I like what you said about mistakes and I see it the same way. In order to see a mistake not in a negative way I even call it experience. What ever experience we make, we learn and we learn probably best from the “hard” experiences!

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Hi Ritu – Your comment surprised me. Surely our surroundings only “tie us down” if we allow them to. i.e. If we choose to let them. Perhaps I am missing something (it happens!) in your thinking behind that comment? 🙂

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I guess I mean, by surroundings, our environments, and culture too. There are expectations that are pressed upon us from a young age, and you have to be strong to free yourself from them. A lot of people I know just end up adapting their free will to fit inside the box.
That’s what I meant 🙂

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Hi Ritu – Totally understand, but whether we “fit”, or whether we stand alone, is still a choice we make. We can try and adapt to “the norm”, or we can celebrate our difference. We can dutifully live by our parents standards, or we can totally rebel (somewhere in the middle is probably best! 🙂 ) I guess we are interpreting “tie-down” differently.

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It’s also a difference in our thinking because of that difference in upbringing, Colin.
My cultural background has seen me experience life in a different way to you. Xx

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Well it certainly would Ritu, but that just gives us both different situations to make choices about. My first choice of career fell down rather badly due to absolute non-approval by my parents; my second choice went down the tube (after I had received an honours) due to a medical condition. My life in UK determined I emigrate, and the first example of prejudice I ran into here was anti-English! Yes we are all starting in different places, and with different circumstances, but we are all making choices as to how we are going to move forward. Nothing that I can think of “ties us down” … unless we make the choice to let it. i.e. Deciding to do nothing is making a choice.

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We are all on different starting points (which I also see as part of the free will, planned before we took our first breath) and our free will creates the journey to the destination.

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So true, sis. Through no choice of our own, and the way the world is, nowadays, we are all set to start on very different starting blocks. How fast or far we go, towards that finish line is determined, not just by our speed, but the ground upon which we have to traverse xxx

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We are where we are and if we don’t like where we are, we need to change something. If we think we cannot change something then we can still change our attitude (Maya Angelou).
However, what the quote wants to say is that we are granted with a free will and we cannot blame God for the consequences we face (individually or collectively). It only helps us to learn from them to maybe change our way of thinking and acting.

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Ritu – I firmly belief that, in my 73 years, I have had a choice with everything. Even with something as permanent and possibly sensitive as skin colouring, how one reacts to it is a choice. We cannot change the “unchangeable”, but we can certainly choose how we respond to it. Life really is all choices. We had no choice about COVID-19 invading our respective cultures, but we can choose to sit around and moan and complain about our lack of freedom etc., or we can see it as a golden opportunity to get those inside projects completed, spend more time with whoever etc. etc. It is always a matter of choice.

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I think we will respectfully have to agree to disagree on this issue, Colin. Because you weren’t born an Indian female. It would be hard to ever really appreciate being in my shoes. Because from birth the thinking is different.
I’m lucky. I was born into a family where my own choices were respected and encouraged, however I know a lot of women who we’re tired down or held beck because of the cultural expectations.

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Hi Ritu – I have the greatest respect for you and your perspectives and will therefore not pursue it any further however, it makes no difference to me whether one is born in India, Pakistan, China, Australia, Tibet .. or anywhere else in the world (including England) as we are all raised in our parents culture with all that entails. If we choose to move our family to a different culture, then our family has choices as to how to integrate or not and a “million other things”. I therefore do not see the relevance in comparing your situation with my own unless you actually believe that being of white English descent provides no issues in life … and you’re too well educated to believe that! Take care and stay safe. Regards. Colin.

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This is too much of a touchlight topic, Colin, but again, I respect your view too, though it is very different from my own.
There is no right or wrong view. Merely different ones. We can show compassion for other views, but it is hard to really walk in the shoes of another. ❤

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