A lesson from history - Let’s try not to leave any skeletons

NEARLY every family and society has a few skeletons in a closet and those who insist they do not are usually trying to hide an especially embarrassing one.

These skeletons represent things we might wish had been done differently, but we can never know how we would have behaved had we been in our ancestors’ shoes. We will never know if we would have had the courage, the energy or whatever other quality we judge was lacking, to do other than our forefathers did.

Most of us can think of things that we might have done better had we a second chance; the kind word left unspoken, maybe a gratitude unacknowledged.