REVISION
People sometimes get criticized
for revising their story – their history.
Didn’t you know that’s reality?
That’s life. That’s growth. That's significant.
We need to keep writing and re-writing and
re-reading our story – and keep noticing
what we missed in the first reading. In fact,
one of the great blessings of family is to ask
each other about what it was like back then?
And then to say over and over again,
“Oh that’s what you were going through.
Well, I wish I knew that about you back then.”
And the other person says, “You didn’t know?
I didn’t know. I didn’t have a clue
about what I was
going through
back then, but I do now. Want to know?"
© Andy Costello,
Reflections, 2015
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