{"id":15989,"date":"2019-02-02T10:54:20","date_gmt":"2019-02-02T15:54:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bobbiejrae.com\/home\/?p=15989"},"modified":"2025-10-22T18:19:00","modified_gmt":"2025-10-22T22:19:00","slug":"reflect-on-the-past-bj-rae-encouragement-eagle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bobbiejrae.com\/home\/reflect-on-the-past-bj-rae-encouragement-eagle\/","title":{"rendered":"Reflect on the Past\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"

When you reflect on your past, how do you feel?\u00a0 More importantly, how can you overcome how you feel about your past?<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

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As I child, other children laughed at me because of my clothes.\u00a0My hand-me-down pants were too short, as were the sleeves of my shirt.\u00a0 Both my pants and my shirts usually had permanent stains.\u00a0 The other children had nicer clothes than me. And children can be the cruelest people. When I reflect on the past, I recall my peers laughing at me for things that were not my fault.<\/p>\n

As a child, my shoes often were too small.\u00a0My feet usually hurt so badly that I did not run around on the playground with the other children.\u00a0 I only ran around when I could kick my shoes off and run barefoot.\u00a0 When I reflect on my past, I cannot forget the pain in my feet.<\/p>\n

As a child, my home was not a loving place.\u00a0It was a small building filled with arguments and yelling.\u00a0 To use the words of my deceased brother, the tension in the air of my childhood home was \u201cso thick you could easily cut it into bricks.\u201d In my childhood home, I did not feel loved and wanted.\u00a0 When I reflect on the past, I distinctly remember fear inhibiting me from expressing my true feelings.<\/p>\n

As a child, I often lacked food. When Mother went to work one day, she left a pot of \u201cleftover stew\u201d on the stove.\u00a0 She had opened the refrigerator and dumped every leftover into the pot, turned the heat on low and stirred it, and told us to eat it for dinner. But it smelled so badly that we could not even take a single bite of it.\u00a0 In spite of our hunger, we dumped it on our Mother\u2019s favorite bush, and that bush died the next day.\u00a0 Although we remained hungry, it was good that we dumped our \u201cdinner\u201d on a bush instead of eating it. Now as I reflect on my past, I laugh about this unfortunate dead bush, although at the time it was not funny.<\/p>\n

As a child, people outside my family showed me love in numerous ways.\u00a0 One woman paid me money to read the Bible to her.\u00a0 My Grandmother loved me in every way that my Mother did not.\u00a0 My teachers in school seemed to truly enjoy teaching me and helped me every way they could.\u00a0 And my Sunday School teacher always made me feel like the luckiest child in the world. When I reflect on the past, I am grateful for my mentors who loved me unconditionally.<\/p>\n

Now, as an adult, I look back on my childhood and realize how enriched my childhood was.\u00a0 The love that others gave me enriched me beyond measure.\u00a0 Their love motivated me to work hard and succeed. It also gave me reasons to keep going on numerous days when I wanted to give up. I try every day to enrich the lives of others instead of dwelling on my past. Since each person in the world is unique and different, each person\u2019s life should be enriched in a different way. First, I figure out how to improve someone\u2019s life, then I do my best to enable him or her to turn the corner and move on.<\/p>\n

If, like myself, you had a difficult childhood, do you know how to truly conquer the feelings your childhood left in your heart?\u00a0 You cannot buy enough material possessions to change the poverty in your past, because all the possessions in the world could NEVER do this. Nor can you drink enough alcohol, take enough drugs, or smoke enough cigarettes to overcome it. Consuming drugs and alcohol and cigarettes will only create more problems.<\/p>\n

Whenever reflecting on your past causes you to feel angst, remember this.\u00a0 You cannot change your past, but you can change how you feel about yourself.\u00a0 Treat people the way you wish others had treated you in the past, and cherish the love that your actions reflect back to you.<\/p>\n

Trust me, this is the best way to overcome your past!<\/p>\n

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