I think it may be a good thing that we cannot undo the past. If we were able, would we ever go forward in time? Or would we be forever attempting the moment perfect, going back again and again, changing this and that, unsatisfied with how the courses of our lives have gone? It's like all those time travel movies, I think: one moment undone in innocence alters all those others out of kilter. Who would not go back, if he could, and try to change our one big mistake? Our greatest embarassment? It would seem that human beings cannot be trusted with power like that. We see too little and think it is the whole picture.
It may be better to find a purpose for what has happened. This, though, is also fraught with the dangers of myopia. We snap up any reason which fit our particular wants and viewpoints. It is also of little comfort when your face has been dragged through the mud if someone tells you it was meant to be. Perhaps the healthiest — and hardest — thing to do is to move on, and not dwell. If there is a purpose, it has the habit of revealing itself at the oddest times, and we suddenly see how our small picture plays in the grand choreography of life — and forcing the picture to fit never works out quite so well.
Let go of the past — it won't go anywhere. What profit is there to count one's bruises? It is in us to persevere, and sometimes, we don't know why. All we can do is keep an eye ahead for the future rushing toward us, and to keep an eye to the sky should a sign ignite.
kamina
3:38am monday, 31st december
'We see too little and think it is the whole picture' it is true. To be open-minded sometimes isn't even enough. I don't claim to know much. I learn every day and every day I feel as though I know less. But I keep moving forward because one thing I do know is that in the end all will be revealed.
Suzette
10:08pm monday, 31st december
Your a great writer which takes a great thinker. i hope you get what you've been looking and possibly waiting for this new year. Have a great 2002..
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2:46am wednesday, 24th april
I sure hope the past is going somewhere or where the hell am I {nowhere} carry it with you to learn from and compare.
b
12:30am friday, 26th april
wonderfully written! It may be hard to do, but it is worth it.
kamina
Suzette
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