Past actions

In our everyday life
we encounter problems
and make mistakes.

Usually our immediate response
to making a mistake
is to criticize ourselves,
or call ourselves an idiot
or something similar.

We may make this gesture
as a way of remembering
what we did wrong
and hope that it does not
occur again.

Yet,
in reality
what is actually happening
is that we are negatively reacting
to a situation
and learning nothing.

(continues in the book)

© Gary Dodd 2003

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