Most of us likely are guilty of this from time to time. It’s a form of projection, where we project our own life experience into situations that have no tangible meaning to the here and now.

For example: How many of you have said, “I could never do what the pioneers did in the 19th century, which is pack up everything I own, throw it into a covered wagon and travel way out west to an unknown destination, battling Mother Nature and people who don’t want us mingling among them.”

How does one make that determination? They make it based on the creature comforts they enjoy right now in the 21st century. What we all need to do is take the long view and understand that the pioneers did not experience what we have today, that they knew nothing but the life they had. I have to remind myself that moving across country in a bumpy, flimsy wagon was just part of their life. Do you suppose they thought: Gosh, I wish I could transport myself into the future where I had all those comforts that I would have to leave behind just to fulfill this manifest destiny.

Why am I venturing into this realm? Hell, I don’t know. I just am taking a breather from the daily political barrage I am absorbing … and then passing along to readers of High Plains Blogger.

My point of this post, I suppose, is to advise everyone that they cannot control either the past or the future. So, let’s avoid spending a moment wondering how we would fare if thrust into situations with which we have no connection, or which we never will have a connection.

My life today presents plenty of challenges for this old fella.