It has been
proposed that everything we have experienced in our lives from the moment of
birth, the sights, the sounds, the feelings, all responses recorded by our
senses, is still stored within the confines of our human brains. If that is the case, someone may ask: “Why
can’t I remember things?” I feel that
the problem is not that we don’t have the information stored within our brains,
but we have a problem with recall! Our
retrieval system has been flawed by our human imperfections.
The saddest part
of this topic, in my opinion, is that with this marvelous ability within ourselves
to have at our disposal this vast amount of knowledge, we fail to put into use
the most fundamental portion of the process and that is to THINK
about a situation before we take any actions.
You know what I am talking about.
How many times have you done something or said something and almost
immediately knew within yourself that you shouldn’t have done or said
that? It happens to all of us from time
to time. This is because you have not properly
trained ourselves to THINK!
If we look at our
present society you can understand what I am talking about. If you are an older person you will remember
in school you had to learn reading, writing, and arithmetic (and probably many
other subjects). Today, kids don’t have
to know how to read, they wait for the video or an audio presentation and just
watch or listen to what is being said.
And if you have ever seen some of the text messages from kids today,
they DON’T need to know how to write.
If you can’t say something by using initials, codes, or emojis, it’s
probably not going to be said by a young person!
And while we are
talking about younger ones, I shouldn’t really get started on the topic of math
(arithmetic)! Many young people today
can’t add 2 + 2 without the use of a calculator. They DON’T know how to make change for
a dollar when a purchase is made. And I’m
really surprised that they are able to understand if they are getting paid the
proper wages for their job, if they have a job!
In the overall
scheme of things, young people today are not trained on how to THINK! Everyone says they want to be their own
person, make their own decisions, and not have anyone telling them what to
do! However, when we look a bit closer,
we see that many people are only waiting for others to tell them what they are
to do, where they are supposed to go, how they are supposed to act, and what
they are supposed to think, because they don’t want to do it for themselves
because they have never learned HOW to do it!
They simply want
to follow the crowd and be lead along with what they have been told is the
proper and acceptable thing to do. When
I was growing up my mother used to tell us kids: “If EVERYONE was
jumping off the bridge into the river, would you do it too?” When I was younger, I often thought my
parents were not very intelligent people (probably the same as many younger
ones today), but as I got older, I realized that they were more intelligent
than I gave them credit for. In looking
at my mother’s comment today, I understand she was NOT telling me NOT
to jump off a bridge. There may be times
and circumstances when jumping off a bridge could save your life. She was telling me to THINK
before I took action and not simply go along with the crowd. She wanted me to use the brain ability that I
had been given and make good and proper decisions for myself and perhaps others
around me.
When I look at
the world scene today, I find that many of the younger ones who have now grown
to take prominent positions on the world stage but have still not learned how
to use the thinking ability of their brains to make good decisions and they are
still making poor ones. The problem is
that the decisions they are making today effect a large amount of people around
them and, most often, not for the better.
We should try
more to THINK before we speak or act and hopefully, we’ll do things
better. However, we always have that one
stumbling block that we all must face: we’re only human!
QUOTE TO CONSIDER
THOUGHTFUL GEM
"In our own way
we can all be different!"
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