When people fail to take the fact of change into consideration, we are likely
to find the
following situations:
1. Labels
stick — coward, failure, delinquent.
2. Old grudges
stay alive.
3. Maturity
is lacking — voting straight ticket, sentimental attachments, nostalgia,
childish fears.
4. Discouragement
and despair are common because of inability to believe in a change in a
bad situation.
--Minteer,
Words and What They Do To You, Lesson 12
When people
do not examine the mistakes of their past, they are likely to repeat them.