Contemplate for a few minutes what it would be like to travel back in time, hang out with one’s self for a day, and provide a pep talk about life and opportunities, complete with encouraging tips and bits of wisdom. What would that advice be? How many comments would be about how things would have been different ‘if only…?’ Newtown City Lifestyle was fortunate to get ideas about just that concept from a handful of savvy, local women. Take a look to compare notes.
WHAT KELLY WOULD TELL HER YOUNGER SELF:
“We live our lives forward but understand them backward.’ I first heard this quote from a chaplain at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Sister Alice Strogen. She told my husband and me this invaluable advice when our 30-week old preemie twins were fighting for their lives in 2010. We didn’t understand the quote then as well as we do now; life is not a problem to be solved but a journey to be experienced.
There is a divide we cross sometime in our adulthood where we can better understand our past experiences. Experience is valuable and an unforgiving teacher. We know how our actions and experiences have benefited or harmed us and those around us, and it would be easier for us to share and apply this understanding to our youth. Still, we have to remember everyone has their own journey to live and reflect on. I’d try to explain to my younger self this truth, so hopefully, I’d see true blessings in a scraped knee.”