The coolest thing I heard today (actually read) was:
“If we then invoke the leopard that can’t change his spots, saying, ‘That’s just the way I am, might as well accept it,’ we abandon the freedom to change and exploit what we have been in the past to avoid responsibility for what we shall become in the future.”
Allen Wheelis, How People Change
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What an amazing quote!
Perhaps the worse form of slavery is the one we put ourselves into when we chain our future to our past. And that is the real ‘inner slacker,’ lulling us into the comfortability of a ‘tether of inevitability.’
If I’d followed the leopard trajectory, I am most certain I would long since have met my demise by any of the multiple false identities I considered back in my 20s, based in this or that aspect of what seemed at the time an inevitable path. None of them were, and here I stand, thankfully, though I could have done other.