Funhouse Mirror Logic
There are a number of beliefs out there, and in here, that just can’t hold water.
Let’s start easy. How many people do you know who believe that you can turn fat into muscle? Fat is fat and muscle is muscle and never do the trains meet.
Another twisted piece of logic . . . Luck actually exits as a thing. Luck is always a concept that we apply after the fact when we experience good or bad circumstances. Luck doesn’t exist as an entity, it’s a mental category.
Now that we’ve gotten a couple of softballs out of the way, let’s dig in to some deep do-do. Here is Funhouse Mirror Logic at its finest: If I can explain what happened, I can undo what happened.
No you can’t. What happened, happened. Please notice the period after the previous sentence.
You may be able to assess what happened and put steps in place to keep it from happening again, but you cannot undo what happened.
Some people spend almost their entire lifetime doing revisionist history expecting history to change. Notice that “history” and “happened” are synonyms.
Let’s pretend you are a cheating spouse. No amount of explanation or justification will undo what you did. Check with any marriage counselor and they will tell you that’s what their clients continually attempt to do – undo what they’ve done.
This phenomenon falls under the broad category of avoiding “My Bad.” When’s the last time you heard anyone take full responsibility for their actions? You have encountered more lime seeds in your lifetime.
The explanations go on and on and the fact remains the same – you did what you did.
The amount of time spent on attempting the impossible (undoing), is staggering. What you are attempting to undo will remain with you until you own what happened. Not doing so, keeps a heavy weight in place.
Every time you offer a justification or explanation, you make your story heavier with horse shit and you carry that heavy burden and stink with you.
You can spend the rest of your life explaining away what you did (as many prisoners with life sentences do), but that only allows you pseudo peace of mind for a brief time. Every look into a mirror outside the carnival grounds will shatter your myth and reflect your burden back on you.
If your goal is to make amends, the justifications have to end. When you own something you’ve done, you can shed unnecessary baggage and more easily move forward.
You cannot undo what you’ve done but you can own up to it and lighten your load. If you don’t, your luck will run out, and even though your brain isn’t a muscle, if you don’t use it, you’ll become a fathead.
All the best,
John
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