I spent my Friday evening reading every blog I wrote this year, and all the comments along with it. This was extremely valuable to me because not every lesson we learn sticks to us right away. When we blog, I don’t see it as sharing the journey and lessons with others as much as it is recording it for me in the future. I was able to recollect some of the smaller lessons and perspectives I wrote about earlier in the year, and to reassess them. I came to the conclusion that without these blogs, I wouldn’t have the same values as I do today. Without those blogs, I would be a different person. For me, a character of a person can be evaluated by values. Someone who values things only relevant to themselves and which make their lives easier at the expense of others is not someone I’d find myself associating with. By reviewing my past lessons, I can use them to try and make myself a more situationally aware person, and be able to focus more on how I can help the people around me opposed to acting for my own interests. By using my past lessons to better my present self, I can build myself a happier, better future.
The whole concept of an archive is a really interesting topic. An archive shows you all the lessons and achievements and moments from the past that are important to today. Our blog sites are archives. A library and a museum is an archive. And the most interesting one in my opinion is the hardware store. In the words of my biology teacher, a hardware store is like a museum of the evolution of the human mind and abilities. All these tools and machines here were made to do a job that we could not originally do. We as people knew what needed to be used and the best way to do it, and made a machine specialized in performing a task we couldn’t do on our own. This concept can be applied to both Kung Fu and every day life. We reach an obstacle. We struggle to overcome the obstacle. We evaluate the obstacle. We come up with a plan to overcome the obstacle. We get the tools to beat the obstacle. We approach the obstacle. We overcome the obstacle. This is the basis of moving forward.
The past is only good if it is properly utilized. When we find an obstacle we can’t immediately overcome, the first place we should look for answers is the past. Lots of times we have the answer we need to the question that hasn’t been asked yet. As we gain experience, we learn more, and the more we can overcome on our own. Making sure we do learn however is important because that’s the only way we can begin to overcome on our own. If you want a happy future you have to work for a happy future. It’s not easy but nothing worth having comes easy. The easiest way to get a happy future is to have a good background of wisdom. A good background of wisdom can help you make the right choices which can lead to success and overall happiness. Yet, like anything, wisdom can only be obtained through experience.
Overall, understanding the lessons we have learnt in the past and making sure we follow them up and practice them is fundamental in keeping them with us. Many of the lessons we learn will prove to be beneficial down the line of life, so it is important to constantly review and practice them.
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