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<DIV><FONT face="Trebuchet MS" color=#000080>Dear John, and others,<BR><BR>I
want to come back to your wonderful thoughts regarding this principle because I
like the way you have been experimenting in Haitian Creole and in English with
very much: </FONT><FONT face="Trebuchet MS" color=#000080>"<STRONG>What Happens
is what happens - learn and move forward."</STRONG></DIV>
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<DIV>And you have added: "This principle helps us to not lament over should'ves,
to not wallow in regrets. We're all responsible for how we use our time and
space together during this meeting. Let's assume that responsibility and be
prepared to accept what happens and to continually strive to learn and to keep
moving forward."</DIV>
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<DIV>I totally agree and I like they way you describe it!</DIV>
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<DIV>I have a question. Would it be also okay to say: "<STRONG>What happened is
what happened - learn and move forward</STRONG>." ? I mean "What happened
is what happened" (it is past - so we cannot change it anymore) and "learn and
move forward." is present ... with responsibility in my/our "here and
now".<BR></DIV>
<DIV>"What happens is what happens" sounds for me (as a foreign English
speaking person) like it is the present and for "here and now" we are
responsible ... how we use our time. Therefore I think that changing the
first part of this principle variant "into past" could express the "when its
over its over" in it a bit better and would make a distinction to present and
concsious responsibilty.<BR></DIV>
<DIV>I would appreciate your and the opinion from others a lot. Thank you very
much!<BR><BR>Warmly,</DIV>
<DIV>Gabriela</DIV></FONT></BODY></HTML>
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