Just A Thought ~ GET UP OFF THE FLOOR!

"Forgive yourself for your faults and mistakes and move on."

~ Les Brown ~

To castigate ourselves for our faults and mistakes and guiltily carry them with us requires holding an image of ourselves that is out of all proportion to reality. If only we would accept that, like everyone else, we are on a journey, and are imperfect, it would be much easier for ourselves. Get up off the floor!

In medieval Europe, kings and lords kept jesters, who were often termed fools though they were by no means so (these are the Jokers depicted in a pack of playing-cards). Such jesters had special license, and could openly criticize and make fun of the people they worked for. The rulers thus had an opportunity to see themselves through others' eyes.