I'm recovering from a bout with the flu, but I wanted to impart a new insight I had this morning: Don't be so quick to pass judgment: If you gauge how well someone climbs a tree as to whether they are a success or not, a fish would lose every time. If you pick the apple off the tree before it's ready, it won't taste good. Realize all of us are flawed and still growing, still maturing and if you judge us too soon based on some arbitrary standard, you might be judging with the wrong criteria.
When my daughter Luci was perhaps four years old, there was this cartoon that she loved to watch called "Dexter's Laboratory". Dexter was like a mad genius who did experiments in a secret lab under their house. He had a sister named Dee Dee who was older and curious. She would go into Dexter's Lab and ask the problematic question for Dexter, "What does this button do?" and before Dexter could say "No, Dee Dee, No!" chaos would ensue. I can remember looking at Luci at that tender age and thought to myself, I have my own little Dee Dee. She's curious, imaginative and above all, fearless. So today, I want to talk about why folks are so afraid to explore the world we live in. This is not our natural state. Granted, a healthy dosage of self preservation is good so that we don't do something dumb and get ourselves maimed or even worse killed. However, most of us have done some really dumb things when we were young and we mostly survived t...