Reflection on lessons learned from "summary" of The Lover's Dictionary by David Levithan
I've been thinking about what it means to learn a lesson. How do we know when something has truly been learned? Is it when the same mistake isn't made twice? Or is it when the mistake is made again, but this time recognized? Or is it when the mistake is still made, but less often? Or is it when the mistake is never made, but the thought of it lingers on, as a memory of something not forgotten but overcome?I've been thinking about the power of reflection. How looking back can sometimes be more instructive than looking forward. How the past can be a mirror that reflects not only what has been, but also what could be. How the act of remembrance can be an act of transformation, turning a mistake into a lesson, a failure into an opportunity, a loss into a gain. I've been thinking about the act of reflection itself. How it requires a certain distance from the event, a certain perspective that can only come with time. How it demands honesty and humility, a willingness to see oneself not as one wishes to be, but as one truly is. How it invites a kind of vulnerability, an openness to being wrong, to being imperfect, to being human. I've been...
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