"Those who cannot remember the past are destined to repeat it"
In Greek mythology, Sisyphus was punished for repetitive deceitfulness by having to push a large boulder up a hill, only to have it roll back down when he got close to the top, where he'd have to start the process all over again. And again, and again.
At times, throughout our life, we make the mistake in not learning our lesson from our mistakes, only having to go through it over and over. Maybe it's in opening ourselves up to someone who repeatedly hurts us... or in dating the same type of person that you can't trust or maybe it's in how we go about interacting with people on a daily basis.
In this day and age, technology is supposed to make your life easier, but rarely is that the case though. Apps freeze, phones drop the calls, voice-to-text sends the message "how's your wiener" to your boss when you were inquiring about the weather... and your computer goes black for no reason. It's fairly easy to fix those situations... you either turn it off and on again... or reboot or do a CTRL/ALT/DELETE and in a jiffy, you are back on track... as long as you don't start pushing random buttons, which almost always makes things worse. It's not so simple when a relationships crashes... those fixes don't work... and it seems the more things you 'push' (just like the computer buttons), things get worse until you've fried the whole thing, losing everything. It's going to take more than the task manager to recover. All your hard work is gone instantly.
Recently, I got in an argument with a friend. It's been a rocky road of communication for us since the beginning, being that we are very opposite in so many ways, but we are learning and making progress. We have had a lot of success with shutting down an argument when it happens. Instead of antagonizing, patronizing or prodding each other, we have learned that it's best to switch to DOS
'safe mode' to minimize damage. By walking away and taking some much-needed time to cool down, recheck our work and reconfigure a new pathway, we are able to get to the root of the problem, reboot and come at the it from a different angle. This isn't easy when you just want to start pushing buttons. It's how we're programmed.
The stronger man isn't the one that can push the boulder up the hill 100 times, it's the one that can admit his mistake, stand back and look at the situation and try another path, because it's only then that you can actually make changes to avoid repeating the same situation over and over again and make any progress. To use your head rather than waste your energy in a pointless exercise is always the wiser choice... and will get you farther towards your goal every time. It's common sense... but it's actually not so common.
