Message of the Day - Time Passes

Good Morning,

 

In going through my Mother's treasured keepsakes after she passed I found a large folded piece of Oak tag with the words "Time Passes" written on it huge letters. It was the sign I carried in a 6th Grade play. The play was about Greek Mythology. My job was to carry signs between each act. In two cases, I was to walk in front of the stage carrying the sign "Time Passes". I wore woman shoes (Mom's) to mimic Greek sandals and on more than one occasion as I whizzed across stage, I came within inches of falling off. I thought the crowd was impressed with my sign carrying, rather they were responding to my apparent impending fall off the stage. This luckily never happened. Incidentally, my acting and theatrical careers did crash and burn that night. Never to be resurrected.

 

Anyway, I find it somewhat ironic to see this particular sign some 30 years after I first carried the sign. In other words, time passed

 

In that moment of realization, I thought about the person I was back in 1979, when I was a mere 12 year old boy. I thought of what has changed in my life from those young years of innocence to where I am today, with over two decades living in the 'Real World'.

 

If I had the chance to tell my younger self something, what would I say? Would I advise against getting involved in some of the groups I had been affiliated with? Would I tell myself of the women to avoid and who to get to know sooner? Would I have told myself to accept Christ sooner? Would I tell myself to stay in college and get that degree back in the 80's, or even to avoid going to college for Engineering altogether and focus on business?

 

Thinking it through, I realized that in all the time that has passed, that who I am today, is a composite of all that I have experienced in the past. The mistakes I made, the poor choices, and there were many, all had their hand in helping me be the person who I am today.

 

Those experiences, good or bad, helped me be the person who types to you now. I am not saying this because there is no way to change the past, but rather that we have the opportunity to learn and grow from our experiences.

 

Time Passes for all of us. The question is will we learn from our past and find ways to be a better person because of our experiences and what we learned from them as we move forward in life.

 

What do you see when you look back?

 

Enjoy!

 

Sanford Berenberg
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