A fellow Blogger's note asked: " At the end of your life is it better to look back & regret the things you did, or the things you didn't do? "
Neither! For me anyway, & that's what I would always stick to.
I feel that the only value of the past is the lesson learned. If,
at the point of reflection, I find my life has not been as I had hoped
or planned for, the negative feeling weighs less than the continuous
regret, a total waste of time & emotions. You simply can't erase the past, nor to change even a single detail.
Bearing
this in mind, I think one should learn to be aware of one's present
situations, circumstances & one's own ability or inability to deal
with them, & strive to be in control of one's actions &
reactions, both the positive & the negative, and always in the
present tense, precisely so as not to, one day, regret having done
certain things one shouldn't, or not having done things one should
have.
People
are too used to do things programmed for them, consciously or unaware,
by habit, work, convention, duties, obligations, most of all by what's
expected of them. Like the billiard ball reacting to the push of the
cue stick. And the majority blame all their misfortunes & misery to
circumstance created by others. I say it's better to be the cue than the ball.
There's the expression Salt of Life.
Maybe we do live in a salty world with people going around throwing
salt all over the place, but you only suffer if you have open wounds. The problem is not the salt, it's the wounds.
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