Last year I thought a lot about how UNFINISHED BUSINESS
STALKS YOU. I was finding that ‘old baggage’ was still coming back at me.
It’s
almost as though ‘you can run, but you can’t hide’, especially applies to the
unresolved issues that each of us has somewhere in our lives.
Like unwanted Junk Mail, that pile of unfinished
rubbish, which you hoped was gone from your life forever is back. Inconvenient
and unwelcome, it is like the dust you have swept under your carpet and forgot
about at some earlier time.
Most of us tend to ignore a lot of things or delay
dealing with them until later. Life is a helpful accomplice in that, almost as
if by magic, some of this ‘junk’ goes back into the background of our day to
day lives and we forget about it. The fact that we still have not dealt with it,
perhaps a bit too conveniently, bothers us not at all.
Having said this however, from time to time most of us are
eventually forced to notice that some things from the past, reappear in our
lives again and again. Things that never seem to be resolved or finished, for
some strange reason seem to come forward as problems to disrupt our lives and
trouble us at the most inconvenient times. Strangely too, each time they somehow
again catch us by surprise.
Why is it that we are going along just fine for quite a
while and then, can because of some small thing, feel like we suddenly find
ourselves reliving our worst nightmare?
Sometimes I wonder whether we are doomed to repeat our
mistakes until we learn from them or whether our lives will not move forward
properly if we don’t complete and conclude things from the past before we move on.
I can’t help but wonder whether not dealing with and closing off the past
almost ensures it will intrude upon our lives again at some future time.
When next this happens to us, you and I might pause for
a moment and figure out whether or not, we are ready to deal with them finally
and let ourselves move forward at last. Some things that pose problems in our
lives simply are not ever going to go away on their own. Our continuing to
ignore and/or push away, almost ensures that we will still be dealing with
these unresolved past issues long into the future. Whenever you’re ready…
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