REFLECTION #2

For every moment identified as "now" a person must "respond"--even if that "response" is being mentally indifferent or "bored."  It is interesting to note that the combination of "response" and "ability" becomes "responsibility"--which means a consistent ability to "do the right thing" in response to life events or challenges (or even self-initiated goals and objectives).  For every response there are always "consequences"--sequences of happenings that go with ("con") that response.  And that, my children, is what you must figure out in order to live a happy, rewarding life!  You will not always do it right; and you will not always "mess up."  Nobody can do it for you--and there is no way to avoid your own "responsibility"!

RAY'S RANDOM REFLECTIONS

This blog is going to be a continuing work in progress and is intended primarily for my descendants to read from time to time if they have any interest in what I learned about life and living during the seventy-five years that I can remember.  I was born in 1932, but my memories do not extend much past 1938.  I will not spend much time in recounting these experiences; but I will try to distill the lessons I learned in brief "capsules" of reflection.

definition: "Reflection" is the act of holding up the mirror of Truth to the experiences of life.

NOW

"Now" is the most important focal point of your life.

But "now" is very elusive; for the moment you focus on "now", it becomes "then"!

Also, while planning the future, "now" happens.

As you become older, this fact of living becomes clearer.

Don't miss the most important experiences of your life while dwelling in "then"--past and future.