Potpourri

It is interesting to me how I have things on the wall and never really look at them.  I have 3 pictures on the door to the hanging wardrobe, and I was really only aware of what one said. Until yesterday.  I looked at the three wall pictures and sayings.
The one I look at regularly was a young girl enthralled in her phone sitting with what I think is a granddad who is just sitting there.  The caption is something like “she is running out of time and doesn’t even know it.”  I am so not against phone's but to me there is a time and a place for everything.
I think that is a particularly sad image as it seems often it is easier to relate to a machine rather than a person.  When I was younger I had no concept of life expectancy.  It seemed that all would be always as it is.  I know different now.
Another saying I have on my wall is from a song.  “there are just some things that numbers can’t measure – like matters of the heart.”
That is one of the reasons I have difficulty sometimes with algorithms.  To me they just measure actions based on an incomplete set of figures based on what has happened before.  I do not think they take into account the heart.  People can have a “change of heart.”  Yet so often people can be disqualified based on previous actions rather than new actions that may have been in vogue for years.
To that end I like to give people the benefit of the doubt.  Sure I can get burned but I want people to believe in me, so it is reasonable for me to believe in others (based on criteria I set for myself). Current consistent actions tell me a lot more than previous actions.  To me it is all about the fruit of a person’s life.
The third saying I have on the wall is “I am not what I was, but I have never been what I am going to be.”
The reason that means heaps to me is my past does not define me. I know I have made mistakes in the past and some were doozeys.  I also know I will make others in the future (hopefully not doozeys) but I am a work in progress and I know things are on the improve.
I am glad to have been reminded of these things.  I guess that is why they were there in the first place.