old advice

I came to realize I’ve been following advice I received from someone several decades ago—a person I haven’t heard from since. Like Geneen Roth says, this guidance is GPS from The Twilight Zone. I’m using a map from a place that is no longer there to navigate to a place that doesn’t exist.

And I really wanted to blog about it.

Except I can’t for the life of me remember what the specific advice was.

I started brainstorming people, aphorisms in my head, all trying to remember what it was.

But still nope.

Part of me thinks forgetting is a good thing. Maybe, simply being aware…

… that ideas in my head can still be there from people long gone

… that the past can still influence my present

… that I can question whether these old ideas are good ideas and whether they still work for me

Is enough.