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“Sometimes the greatest messages come out of the greatest messes.” Steve Maraboli
It seems that this message has much more significance when it’s delivered by a wreck-ining force!
Lessons are most effective and memorable when we must ‘change’ our placid ways to deal with a challenge.
It can be likened to passive learning, like watching a movie about the Titanic versus active learning, actually smashing deck chairs into planks to construct a make shift raft while the ship is sinking and the ocean is engulfing your ankles.
You can get a mental image of both circumstances, but the second scenario holds much more emotional charge and actually imprints your memory.
To walk away from a tragedy and feel gratitude for the experience, the lessons, the flood of emotional growth, leaves you very different than you ever were before.
To then go on to help others navigate their storm is a gift - to both the person in need, and to the survivor-comforter. ❀
It seems that this message has much more significance when it’s delivered by a wreck-ining force!
Lessons are most effective and memorable when we must ‘change’ our placid ways to deal with a challenge.
It can be likened to passive learning, like watching a movie about the Titanic versus active learning, actually smashing deck chairs into planks to construct a make shift raft while the ship is sinking and the ocean is engulfing your ankles.
You can get a mental image of both circumstances, but the second scenario holds much more emotional charge and actually imprints your memory.
To walk away from a tragedy and feel gratitude for the experience, the lessons, the flood of emotional growth, leaves you very different than you ever were before.
To then go on to help others navigate their storm is a gift - to both the person in need, and to the survivor-comforter. ❀
