Lessons from" The Road Less Travelled" (life's lessons)

I need a little 'food for the soul". So Kit told me to re-read "The Road Less Travelled" by M. Scott Peck.
It's a classic...with a good dose of common sense and deep reflections.
Maybe this is the emotional and mental sustenance I need right now.

The first chapter starts like this:
"Life is difficult"
Often we moan and groan about this. We whine, we grumble...and make ourselves the victim of everything else except for our own selves.

I guess it would be so much easier to accept that it may be a fact that life is difficult.
There are no free passes
Nothing comes easy; nothing is for free.
Challenges and obstacles will stand in my way, at some point or another.

So here is the challenge.
Do I continue to adopt a victim, self-pitying mentality?
Or do I grit my teeth, and tell myself...
"Face it...Only I can help myself"...

ah....there are days...and there are days...
Right now...it's getting myself to believe...in myself again.
When life gives you lemons...
Learn to enjoy the tang!


Dear God
Give me strength.
Amin.

Lessons from the past

Today, I had to take stock of my own actions again.
Each year, the release of the exam results will be a day when I go on a wild emotional roller-coaster ride.
Each time, I feel the need to hang on tightly to my sanity as I stand up and be counted.

The hardest part of the job I do is standing up and admitting my accountability for the overall results.  This is something that you cannot run away from.  No matter how much one tries to find excuses, or push the blame, or dig up reasons, the fact is that someone got to be the one responsible.

It's not a blame game.
It's taking stock of how much I am liable for the events that have  unfolded.
I need to remember that while collectively, the impression of the results is not too bad; to some of my kids, each grade matters.

It's not a time for regrets.
It is so much easier to say "if only..." or "I should have.."
It's a time to decide how best to move on forward.

I may or may not have done my best.
I will learn to improve, and work on areas of concern.

Stand up....and be counted.
I do hope however, that by stepping back, I am doing the right thing.

Lessons that I have learnt...
I am not good enough...
Let someone else help them.