The first line of this blog was originally "I have regrets."
But after having a sort of revelation the other day after hearing yet another song lyric, I decided that the phrase above isn't entirely true.
There are things in my life I would have done differently, for sure. Haven't we all been there? There's always some situation that happened, we just wish we could have a re-do on. Like when you're playing Super Mario on the NES and you enter the Game Genie code wrong... you hit "reset" and everything starts over, all mistakes washed away.
But what I realized is that regrets require maintenance.. they don't just have life on their own and continue to haunt you. You have to invest in them, give them thought and attention, for them to continue to exist.
I don't have time to maintain these regrets.
I don't have time to make myself sad about things I've done wrong, things I can't change. There is no point in being sad over something that's done, gone, finito.
I need my time for working out the present and the future. The past has taken enough of my time.
There are lessons to learn from the past, I agree. And for this reason alone, maybe it's good to analyze what went wrong. Not dwell, just objectively assess, decide what would have been a better choice, and move on.
And now it's time to set the bar higher.. and resolve that the present and future are not going to follow the same distorted pattern as the past.
No way.
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