“How you look at it is pretty much how you'll see it”
― Rasheed Ogunlaru
You are probably familiar with the expression that hindsight
is 20/20, meaning it’s a lot easier to make sense of things after they have
happened.
I had the pleasure of listening to businessman, author and
speaker Joel Fotinos on Sunday, and he had an interesting take on hindsight,
and its corollary, foresight.
Turns out hindsight is actually a useful spiritual tool to
look back at significant life events with fresh eyes, and hopefully see the
benefit of something that seemed not so good, or even terrible, at the time.
It’s not exactly reinventing history, but rather taking the time to reflect on
your life’s circumstances and events, and find new meaning, or opportunities
for growth, in those events, once time has passed and the emotions associated
with them have cooled down.
