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A Tiger Can Change Its Stripes
Every time someone on Ricochet says what a nice or kind person I am, I’m taken aback. After all the years of being an angry and defensive person, not all the time but a lot of the time, I’m still surprised that people like me. Whenever I mention my surprised reaction to the gracious people who’ve known me for a while on Ricochet, they don’t believe me, or are skeptical about my past turmoil. So I decided to share the changes I went through over the years to persuade you that I really was a quite different person, but maybe more important, people can change who they are, right to the core, if they are determined to do it.
Since I don’t intend to write a tome (or expect you to read one), I’m going to focus on three key times in my life that transformed my perspective about myself and my relationship to others.
Right about now, you might be asking yourself, “How bad can things get in this country?” Many of us would agree that the state of the union is not great. But the soul-saving gift of this time of year, which is now the Jewish month of Adar, is that during Adar, we increase our joy.
For the first time that I can remember, I wish that I were ignorant of politics. To want to be ignorant about anything is so contrary to my nature. Although I know that I can’t undo what I know, I can’t help contemplating what life would be like if I didn’t know the disruption that was happening in the election process . . .
