Vocal De Frag Episode 179 Stuck In A Past We Keep Rewriting

It's completely natural to base your life story on the interpretation of where you presently stand. I'm no doctor to tell you it's healthy but the junk needs to get out of your trunk. We play the telephone game with how it really went down. Each time a subject is brought up it's given a little twist. After a few years leading into decades... what's the real adventure?

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
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(00:23):
to choose from. Enjoy your exploration.

Speaker 2 (00:26):
Hey, zero, and this is vocal dfreg. Vocal d fregging
is asking yourself the questions and then questioning the answers.
We're always turning to other people for answers, but we
never turn to ourselves. And yet we'll plant our face
on a smartphone if we're on a computer and take
in so much content and never really find out what
it is that we're looking for. We'll just keep adding

(00:46):
things on, saying well, maybe one day I'll get back
to it. Ask yourself the questions and question the answers.
It takes courage, it takes confidence. You have to dare
yourself to do it many times, and when you think
you're done, keep pushing. Keep pushing, because there are many
times when you're going to the bathroom. You know you
know what I'm talking about. You're not done until your
body says you're done. This is vocal dfragging. So the

(01:10):
question today is why is it that we can't seem
to let go of our past. I've been doing a
lot of research on that, and I came across something
early this morning that really kind of took me by surprise,
and that is, when it comes to our past, one
of the reasons why we hold on to it is
because we only want to deal with what we know.
If you don't know what's happening in your presence of

(01:32):
now or in the future, then that creates uncertainty. Ooh
wait a second, stop right there. Uncertainty. We've been dealing
with that since the COVID lockdown and even before that,
but nobody really put a lot of focus on it
or spoke about it in the open forms. But uncertainty
comes when we step away from the past that we

(01:54):
refuse to shake when in reality we're supposed to be
living in the presence of now and dealing with what
is now. I have a coworker that told another one
yesterday that people who have been challenged in life heart attacks, cancer,
different reasons why you may have been in the hospital.
They tend to look at the present as being that

(02:14):
place of, oh my god, I am so lucky to
be in this moment of now, and I'm so grateful
to be here. And yet those that haven't faced challenges
like that yet are sitting there going, well, why did
you do this? When did you do it? Oh? Man?
I like living in my past. That's where everything was
like perfect at one time. That's kind of odd to
say perfect at one time. I had another friend that

(02:37):
once said during my humble days, and when she said that,
I kind of looked inward, going, why is it she said,
in my humble bays? Are you not humble anymore? Do
you make so much money that you don't have to
be humble? I was totally lost on that. But she
was in her moment of now, and she felt that

(02:57):
during her humble bays she was more giving to the community,
but these days, well it was more about her. So
is that one of the things that we're uncertain about
as well, is that we don't know if we're still
going to be the same people when we get to
the opposite side. So we stick to our past something
that we already know, something we always write about, we

(03:20):
think about, we tell new tales because hey, if you
weren't there, I can pretty much say whatever I want
and build that story around how I want. Well, that's
not good for the mind, body, and soul, not at all,
because you can't always live up to what you think
you are, and you're always going to bump into somebody

(03:40):
who was there or fell witness to it, and they're
going to say, yeah, I don't think that's right. I
know it went differently than what you're saying. Sag my
radio career, forty six years. What do you want to know?
The problem is is that what you're asking about is
based on my modern day interpretation unless you go into

(04:01):
my daily writing of thirty two years and you take
a look at those notes which were taken while I
was in the broadcast industry, radio itself. So you sit
there and you go, Okay, ask yourself the questions and
questioning the answers. What do I want to know? And
will the interpretation give me the opportunity to grow forward?

(04:24):
Ask the questions, question the answers. Don't get locked up
into this thing called uncertainty. If you're walking away from
your past. Be confident that you're going to learn something
today and you're probably gonna have a lot of fun
doing it. I'm Errol. That's a vocal beep.

Speaker 1 (04:41):
Frank