faltering and learning

If we can learning anything at all... it is that mistakes, errors, suffering, do-overs, all these things, produce character and growth.

Otherwise, we remain like infants in EZ chairs with remote controls. A life of easy, and of ease produces really nothing at all. Nothing much good. Really nothing of eternal value either.

I wonder if the American way of life is too soft, and that in some real way it, and not war, or something else, will be the end of us. What a strange irony. I don't mean the "end of us" in any physical sense, as doomsdays as that sounds, (read: dramatic. People DO love that, though). I mean, on the inside, from which we live. We make our decisions from that spot.

We falter, and then we learn. It's simple really. It's just not very pretty.