in the spirit of converting drafts into actual writing..
to be fair, lessons and reminders that feel an awful lot like lessons -
lessons:
- when your car alarm is going off at a car dealership, they are happy to get you out quicker than the average person.
- after jumping in a partially frozen-over lake, it really hurts to urinate. give it a little while. seriously.
- when experienced rock climbers start getting freaked out, it's probably time to stop scrambling. not go another couple hundred yards. but, dude, that view..
- a fatally flawed strategy: teaching the body to be strong through a non-use of sunscreen.
- burgundy wine is rather pleasant. more so with good company.
- whether or not they are aggressive, mountain goats can sure as hell act like it. and you know you don't want to get jumped by one. seriously.
- barleywine style ale, ecclesiastes, and italian food make for a good, but weird combination. weird to share in public anyway.
lesson-like reminders:
- God's blessings are not half-assed. especially when that blessing is a person. unless that person tragically had half an ass blown off in a firework accident. I want to meet that person.
- when a person tries to draw general lessons from recent experience, it still has to be tested and verified to be true. simply feeling that something is true doesn't make it true.
- emotional commitment to another person must match the level of stated (verbalized, mutual) commitment.
- conflict resolution is a vital skill. prolonged unwillingness to resolve a conflict usually implies immaturity, a manifest superficiality in the relationship, and/or broken trust (more generally, a relationship/friendship on unequal terms).
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"He has made everything appropriate in its time, He has also set eternity in their heart, yet so that man will not find out the work which God has done from the beginning even to the end."
- ecclesiastes 3:11
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