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“I Dodged a Bullet with Her!”
Daily Meditation 767–4/4/2024
Most of us have exes. Ex boyfriend, ex girlfriend, ex husband or wife. Yada yada.
Now, society has put this seed within us that we cannot (and should not) have amicable relationships with exes. And — to be perfectly fair — in many cases it’s probably for the best. Maybe one of you cheated. Or they were a drunk. Or they were a step-parent to your kid and keeping them in orbit would cause suffering to the child. All of this, of course, is topic for another day.
But, have you ever had a situation where you see one of them and the first thought that crosses your mind it “Wowzers — boy I dodged a bullet there!”
They put on a ton of weight.
They stopped shaving their pits and started shaving their head.
They were arrested.
You saw them wearing a MAGA hat!
What we tend to miss when we have this thought is that people — including you — change. Things happen that we don’t know about.
The guy you dated who doubled in weight — “I dodged a bullet with him!” — lost his mother, father, and younger brother in a car accident last year right as he became drinking age. He turned to the bottle, and in turn, the bottle turned him into this.
