Are we chained to our past?
I had a lovely week full of sunshine and pouring rain too in Tuscany, but hey rain in Tuscany is still warmer rain then in Glasgow yes!!?
I love history and love museums and wonder around the cities and small villages, tracing back the footsteps of people long gone. The energy is still there and you can feel it.
I bought a book about the mighty powerful banking family of the Medici's 14-15th century Florence and watched documentaries about their rise and fall.
While watching this is always inspirational, as when you are born in such a rich and mighty family, the pressure and all eyes are on you, and can't help but wonder how much you own your own identity and own your own choices born in a family like this.
We are all chained to our past in some way
We are all chained as it were to the families, religions, and political climates of our surroundings, or even to our own limitations of the brain and mind. But we do have choices within these imaginary walls.
We have free will to make different choices than our family and fathers and mothers before us. We have free will to feel like a victim or not in events of great disappointment, like conflict at work.
We can choose happiness over failure and disappointment, power over victimhood.
We have free will over the future. Do we let our past demand and rule our future self yes or no?
Those magnificent families came with a price, you were born into this with a high pressure to be as powerful, smart, and witty as your father before you. What if you simply said 'no', I want a farmhouse in the middle of nowhere, instead? No way you had that choice.
You have to deal with what has been given to you. There are certain rules we can not escape. That is in our lives true as well.
We cannot escape our family dynamics, our work culture without going bankrupt or crazy.
We have to deal with the here and now before we can improve our future for the better.
So the choice is ours.
