Lessons from a trip

As our European trip is drawing to an end, it’s been punctuated with unforgettable sites and fun encounters, I have also learned many things about me and others in ways that I hope will serve me well in the near future and hopefully for the rest of my life if I can manage to keep them in mind.
In seeing how time is doing its inexorable and destructive work on friends and family, we’re now even more convinced than ever that our good times on the planet are running fast and that this simple truth behooves us to truly enjoy each moment to its fullest. Likewise we need to also become much better at appreciating more things, even the little trivial ones that we take for granted most of the time!
That powerful context also shows that we must learn to forget and forgive and that even the biggest hurts or all the wrongs that might have been perpetrated upon us can’t be sublimated into some kind of pardon. We should learn to see that any negative experience is a building block that will make us much better individuals.
So the rule becomes clearer: We should also never let bad things fester, we should always build bridges instead of letting the few that link us to others crumble and we need to be better at controlling each single emotion when it might stand as an obstacle in our good relationship with others. Finally we need to look at money and material things always as a means and never as an end.