Here’s a trustworthy saying – libraries fulfil their function when they are full of books.
Libraries used to be a location in which I took great delight and found great respite. The books in particular that caught my interest gave an outline and some insight into people, teams or organisations. I found those outlines fascinating. Plotting along how the individual progressed and regressed. Noting how the company started with little, made it to be vast and then ended in ignominy. Following how the team enjoyed early success, was blighted with the dominance of others and then fought back to have a place at the top table once more. Observing how that programme had been the idea of someone that was given a chance and prospered in the hands of others.
Those stories and more fascinated me for years.
It explains why I find the jourenys of others I come across of great interest to me. What intrigues me in a number of cases is how little people have paid attention to their journey. Self-absorbed though some can be, not even they have properly absorbed the steps in the journey they took to reach their current position. Not paid attention to their good steps as well as their bad ones.
Why it’s worth paying attention, is because in there can be wisdom, there can be much to instruct and warn. Not just for yourself but for others as well.
That’s not to say that everyone should go writing their autobiography or hire someone to get their authorised biography put together. It is however, an encouragement to not just rush to the next experience or dismiss what has happened to you before.
Libraries may take a different form in the future, but among the collection of works can inspire others because of your contribution made in learning from the lessons of your experience.
For His Name’s Sake
Shalom
C. L. J. Dryden
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