This is Alpha, the first-born, when he was 2YO.
This is Beta, the second-born, when he was about 2YO.
This is Gamma, the third-born, when he was about 18MO.
Lessons from a Pool
Oct
26
2023
I was always impressed with people who could make life lessons out of things.
“Wow, that’s a really good way of looking at that.”
“How did they think of that?”
and so on.
But then I discovered that you can make anything a life lesson if you want. You can even make the same thing two opposite lessons. People just make them up.
This realization came to me last summer as I was figuring out how to keep our pool clean.
I read something about how you should stir the water and brush the sides so the gunk doesn’t settle and can get pulled into the filter. It won’t stay clean unless you keep things active. And I was reminded of relationship advice – not to let problems fester, but to get things out in the open. You can’t resolve any problems by ignoring them.
Then we went away on vacation, and the pool sat unattended for a week or two. And all the gunk settled and congealed into a mat at the bottom of the pool, and it was easily scraped up in large chunks. And I was reminded of relationship advice – not to keep bringing up disagreements and hurts, but to give things time to heal.
No, it’s not a perfect analogy, but I never was that good at making life lessons out of things. But the life lesson here is that you can get lessons out of anything. Like Ratatouille – not that everything can be a life lesson, but that a life lesson can come from anywhere.
Hatred stirs up strife, But love covers all offenses.
Proverbs 10:12
This little article thingy was written by Some Guy sometime around 1:41 pm and has been carefully placed in the Life category.
