The Best Teacher

I've watched a lot of people make bad choices.  Regrettable stupid choices. Can't-you-see-what-trouble-you're-getting-into! choices. It's perfectly obvious to everyone looking where these choices are headed. Toward regret, of course.
I've always determined to learn from other people's mistakes. I don't want to end up looking as stupid as they did. I don't want to live with the consequences they're dealing with. I don't want to be categorized in the Stupid Choices Group along with them. Because of course I'm definitely not as stupid as they were.

Unfortunately I'm making a stupid mistake right there, by forgetting the well-known proverb about the most effective way of learning: Experience is the best teacher.

I guess I should've realized
 I couldn't avoid joining the Stupid Choices Group. Just look at me now. I'm making those same stupid  choices. Those same obvious mistakes. Those same can't-you-see-what-you're doing-to-yourself!? mistakes. Where did my idealisms, all those vital life-lessons-learned-by-watching-others disappear to the minute I needed them?

Experience is the best teacher. Observing isn't the best teacher; Hearing isn't the best teacher. Hands-on Experience is the best teacher. And right now, in the midst of intense Experience, I'm regretting my earlier judgements of others. And I'm learning from Experience, the best teacher

Words of 2016

I did this same thing last year, created a row of words that summed up the way the year 2015 had been for me. Unfortunately, those words died along with my last phone (unless one of my readers has them yet) so I can't compare them to 2016's words. I do hope though, that they aren't identical and that my 2016 words indicate that I have changed and grown.

If I chose one phrase to describe the last year, it would be this part of a Bible verse that has become my stability:
                                                ,,,,,,,,,,,,BeOfGoodCourage,,,,,,,,,,,

That said, there are plenty of words I could use to describe myself and my life and the things that happened to me and the way I reacted to the things that happened to me in the last year. Here are few:


Stronger,,,,Braver
Failure
Relinquishing myself
Change
Tears and Smiles
Lonesomeness
Aloneness
Flying and falling (figuratively)
Joy
Fear, inhibiting fear
But also Love, casting out the fear
Learning
Blind Trust
Acknowledge My Treasures
NewWays
NewPlace
NewLife
Ndazolowera. I have grown accustomed. To strangers and strangeness and change and leaving and to adapting. It's hard still, but it's my life so I will zolowera.

If anyone reading this would like to share with me their Words of 2016, I think most of you know how to contact me; I would enjoy reading them, should you decide to share.

Of course, the step after bidding  The Old Year farewell with a bunch of reminiscing, is to welcome The New Year by creating a few goals and plans for the next 12 months. New Years Resolutions anyone? I'd also enjoy hearing about those. I myself am not much of a New Years resolution person, But the following is one resolution that I will make, and will keep:

,,,,,,My motto for 2017, I'll live for a living God,,,,,,

{TheSunsetWatcher}