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Why Reflecting on the Past Can Be Dangerous

  • >> No doubt. And um I really had to work hard on this. So I I just kept making mental notes. Like Lisa, don’t go back and romanticize the past and think like, wow, I just want to return to that, you know? And that’s a very biblical thing. Just like the children of Israel, they went out to the desert and they were delivered from Egypt.
  • God did this miraculous thing they’d been crying out to God to do. They get delivered. They’re out in the desert. And then what? >> And then they go, “Well, why are we here? Moses, did you bring us out here to die? Send us back to Egypt. We had meat and we had fish. We And I think Moses >> was probably about to lose his mind.
  • There is a reason why he struck that rock eventually.” And it’s cuz the people have have they have tricked him for the last time, Lisa. Like, it is just too much. And the the irony of it all is I think if I were Moses, I’d be like, >> “No, y’all are gaslighting.” Cuz you know who was eating all that good stuff? Me.
  • I was eating it cuz I was in the palace. Y’all were slaves. You’re servants. You were not eating all that good stuff. I was eating that good stuff. But to your point, I do think that there’s this way that we can go back and we can glorify and romanticize a past um that is honestly not even true of the situation. >> And we can, like I said, travel mentally back and maximize what was good, like little scraps of love.
  • >> There often is good stuff. People wipe it all out. Like we had a couple of moments at at Disney or on a vacation. And I tell people >> it takes sometimes years later but they can go or see a family album with your ex in it or whatever and say there were a few moments this myopic black and white stuff doesn’t work and go there were some moments along the way that were peaceful and that’s a good memory I think to go there early in a revisionist history of just searching for it not just shopping for pain we’ve talked

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