Putting A Million Little Pieces Back Together

Putting A Million Little Pieces Back TogetherYou are going to mess up.   I am going to mess up.  We are all going to mess up.  Accept it.  It's part of being a member of that upright species we sometimes call Frank or Susan or James.  I've often thought of our journey here as being like the bumper cars you see at the country fair.  In our attempt to move forward and stay on track we get jostled and pushed and bumped from all directions.  We under-steer and we over-steer. There are times in all of our lives when we mess up big and it does not feel like we will ever be able to move past it.  I know the feeling and I've been there.  The times when you feel beaten and worthless.  The times when you truly can't see how to get through another day.  The time when the wound can't possibly seem to heal.  After getting the kids to bed last night my wife and I sat talking about Oprah and some of the great guests she had on. In one of her last shows she interviewed James Frey one on one.  The first time he was on her show she propelled his book "A million little pieces" into the stratosphere.  The next time he was on she stripped him bare to the world for having fabricated a good deal of the book he called a memoir.  A book that she helped make an international best seller. He said that show felt like a public stoning.  Oprah was relentless in her attack on him.  At home his was surrounded and hounded by the paparazzi. It got so back they had to leave the country for several months.  He was sued and chastised and beaten and broken.  That was five years ago.  All that is now in his past.  Today he is whole again.  Back writing.  The wounds healed. The hurt fading.  The moving on.  The forgiving.  I think that's the most important part of moving past a big crash in our lives.  The forgiving.  The day we can see our mistakes as being human and to forgive ourselves I think is the day we can begin to once again walk in the light.  Know this.  No matter what you have done.  No matter how dark it appears.  No matter how bad you feel if you work towards one day being so kind as to forgive yourself you will be on your way to putting a million little pieces back together.  Have an excellent day.

Be well, Randy Taylor CalltoAction_TwoBooks
Taylormade Leadership

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