Why Are Some Lessons So Hard To Learn

There is an old saying, “you can lead a mule to water, but you can’t make him drink”, more and more, I am seeing that in our society.  Everyday people tell us things and we should be able to listen and learn from what they are telling us … but then just hours after hearing it, we turn around and do the same thing in hopes of either the same results or same results.  For example, a cop in hot water for shooting an unarmed teen in Ferguson, Mississippi, but didn’t he have an example to go by when he seen how much trouble George Zimmerman got into for shooting Trevon Martin?  These are both very publicized stories and one should have learned from the other, but yet Officer Wilson in Ferguson must have been thinking he was going to get the same results as Zimmerman in Florida.  Zimmerman after a very long trial was acquitted of the charges … but that doesn’t mean that Wilson will be.  When we hear stories in the news, our thoughts should be how would I have handled the situation differently?  Isn’t our goal to better ourselves, well in order to better ourselves, we have to learn the lessons that are taught to us on a daily basis.

The last thing I want to do is have someone get arrested when I know that there is another way to resolve the issues at hand, but last night, even after telling these guys numerous times to take their “conversation” somewhere else, they insisted on continuing it on the hotel premises.  The law was called and only then did they decide to try to take somewhere else … but by then it was too late.  I left it in the officers hands and as a result one of them went to jail.  All these guys had to do was listen to my instructions, but they thought they had a better way of handling it. 

One of my friends on Facebook made a brilliant statement on here post last night and I don’t even think she realizes how brilliant it was.  She said, “I just finished reading through some of my journals from last year and I realized that I am having some of the same struggles that I had at that time, but I am handling them differently now”, that was brilliant.  That is exactly what we all should be striving for.  When we hear a story in the news, our thoughts should go to what we could do differently that those people didn’t do … we shouldn’t aim to do the same thing and hope for a different result.  Aim to do better and be better than those that traveled this road before you.