A quiet peaceful past 7 days...

Thur 160709

Yup, it's been a very quiet & peaceful past 7 days since I last made an entry in here...

And it's still very quiet & peaceful...which is good.

So I wouldn't want to bore you with boring uneventful going-on's in Lot 10 nor about its inmates.

However, I would like to share with you a posted entry that I'd read in one of my fav Blogs (kh7883), namely an extract from a lecture given by Dr. Arun Gandhi, grandson of Mahatma Gandhi and founder of theM.K.Gandhi Institute for Nonviolence, in his June 9 lecture at the University of Puerto Rico...one of Non-violence.
Do give it a good read here : http://kh7883.blogspot.com/2009/07/ghandhism-must-read-power-of-non.html

In conclusion, the speaker had said that he wondered...

"if he (his father) had punished me the way we punish our children, whether I would have learned a lesson at all. I don't think so. I would have suffered the punishment and gone on doing the same thing. "

Yup, if we could only have the intelligence & foresight (like the speaker's father) of how best we could teach our children to learn Life's lessons well in that non-violent way (instead of the ways we'd known at that time of our lives, namely mainly through direct action taken or some form of punishment), they might have become better & non-aggresive persons today... so unlike what most of our youngsters are these days. Possible? Maybe..just maybe.

However, we can't turn back the clock now, can we? Nope. No way. So there is no point in living a future filled with regrets. We did what we'd known then which was the best of how & what we could do to teach them the right from the wrong. To equip them to face their future lives. Our children should understand that as they mature...esp after they have become fathers / mothers themselves. Agreed? Sadly though, not all children are that understanding nor able to see nor learn from experiences whilst teaching their own children in their own lives.

Believe it or not, most of us did understand that our parents had punished us for our own good & that whatever they had done, they had done so because they loved us so. With no other intent whatsoever.

We can only hope & pray that our own children will, too...maybe in good time? Yup, Life is all about hope...

Have a good weekend!