Have you ever noticed how certain patterns keep recurring, how history repeats itself, and have you ever wondered why?
Patterns in childhood
We follow distinct patterns, patterns that are ingrained in our personalities. Those repeating patterns are formed in childhood and passed through generations.
You may see another family member in you and decide that although it’s completely unrealistic to change completely, there are things you can change. There is no reason why history should repeat itself.
When you look at the bigger picture of any situation, you can see the behaviour patterns and you can consciously seek to change those, or you can ignore the fact that you’re seeing them.
We may not seek to question our behaviour. Instead, we may check out someone else’s behaviour and ignore our own. We may be self-absorbed, we may think about ourselves, our wants, and as we continue to strive to have and want more, we may stop at nothing until we get what we want.
Taking instead of giving
We’re takers and often take more than we give. We find power in domineering forces such as politics, wealth and religion, with spirituality being at the bottom of the pile. It is because these aspirations are most common that history repeats itself. When our experiences lay dormant, history also repeats itself.
The irony is we get to choose what we repeat. Life can move in circles with us repeating the same ingrained patterns, or it can move in a straight line.
Conclusion
When it comes to history, we have a choice how that will end. It is better to air on the side of caution and rethink what you know, but those things may be overlooked, or avoided like the plague.
In politics, where history repeats itself, it’s not only those making the decisions that history will repeat, but the ramifications on their decisions, can extend far and wide throughout the wider population.
Where we ignore, those things will come back. Nothing ever goes away until we deal with them, find a resolve and a way through.
Source: https://www.lifeisallaround.com
History certainly has a lack of repeating itself. Largely, in my humble opinion, as we don't ever seem to learn from the mistakes of our past.
With scientists help, there does seem to be a little bit of u-turn. We now seem to be taking a step back and questioning our impact on the planet, but that needs to continue moving forward for us all. It is important if we are to avoid irreversible harm.
I hope it's a lesson future generations will be able to look back on and say earlier generations learned and changed what they needed to change.
Our lifestyles are very much responsible for climate change. We need to continue to be mindful about how we choose to live our lives, so that we can make the necessary changes, having listened to the experts, so we don't repeat the same mistakes.
Thanks, yes I hope so too. And agree. Lifestyle is very much the catalyst for the problems we have with climate change.
Flooding, polarised caps melting, sea levels rising, sea temperature rising, all created by the human species because of our lifestyles.
If we are to save the planet and change history, we must continue to take these issues seriously and continue to act and pull together.