EXCEPTIONS ARE NOT THE RULE

DAY 188

Genesis 27:1 Now it came about, when Isaac was old and his eyes were too dim to see, that he called his older son Esau and said to him, “My son.” And he said to him, “Here I am

We often create associations between things, and one of the more common lines we draw is between age and some symptoms. Examples are when you get older, you tend to forget things or as you age, your vision diminishes. We can thus attempt to say “Isaac lost his sight because of his old age”.

However, that should not become the rule because one can equally age with all their physical senses and mental faculties functioning at optimum capacity. You cannot live only expecting everything that was another person’s reality to automatically become yours also.

Outcomes should not be fitted in a straight jacket nor should they be predicted on the basis of a particular scenario. A bad start may influence the journey, but it should not necessarily mean a bad end, and an incomplete upbringing should not automatically result in a questionable adulthood.

If we settle for simply making exceptions the new rules, the goalpost will keep shifting. It will only require creating a new association between any two things.

#sly