“There are moments which mark
your life. Moments when you realize
nothing will ever be the same
and time is divided into two parts, before this, and after this… Sometimes you
can feel such a moment coming. That’s the test, or so I tell myself. I tell
myself that at times like that, strong people keep moving forward anyway, no matter
what they’re going to find”
John Hobbes (Fallen)
Our life… The turning points… The predictable and unpredictable... The expected
and the unexpected… Just remember to live it to the fullest!
David Hume once said, "There
is no guarantee that the future will conform to our past experience."
And he is absolutely right. Good (or bad) events, our accomplishments, and
happenings - regardless of the fact that we lived through them - are not
guaranteed to be repeated with the same results, even if we follow the same
steps as the first time around. Life shows such remarkable regularity, yet
there is no reason to believe that any regularity, or even any repetitive
occurrences we notice, will persist from one moment to the next.
“Take each day as an
experience and each experience as a lesson taught...
Yes life is
unpredictable but looking at it that way, I fear not; but look forward to
the next sunrise...” ~RS
There is no such thing as an ideal life… Life is unpredictable regardless
of a guaranteed sunrise tomorrow; the way it will turn out is a mystery. No
matter where you are, what you are doing or going through, seeking perfection
won’t bring you perfection. We all have uncertainty, problems… we all make
mistakes because we are only human. The only cast-iron certainty we were given
and left with is that we need to live life and not fear life. You just have to
make the best of every situation that you come across in your life time. How we
act and what we do within today’s certainly, will affect and ultimately modify
our futures in one way or another.
Lesson taught…
Every day is a lesson taught (if I haven’t said that a thousand times,
let me drill it a bit deeper!). I understand that even with the best planning,
results won’t always be what I imagined but I still have to have expectations
to guide me through.
Unfortunately for me, my mind (the mechanism responsible for setting my
hopes), expects just as many failures and pains as successes and pleasures.
Fortunately for me though, what I accomplish and what I expect are not
necessarily one in the same because I don’t let myself become boxed in by my -
or anyone else's - set expectations.
So even though I know I will experience some hard times, some regrets,
some distress, some tears, some pains and some disappointment, I also
expect that I will have love, and that I will live a long, fulfilling
life with meaning to someone (but mostly to myself). I also expect laughter,
and I expect to be successful in my career choices…
All of us should expect all of these things, as the bad will teach us and
the good will uplift us. However, we all have to understand that they may not
all happen in the order that we wish or they may not repeat themselves with the
same outcome.
I said earlier, “I fear not the unpredictability of life as I look
forward to the next sunrise.”
I have learned in all the things that are good and go right in my life
that I can’t get too comfortable and take them for granted. I need to leave my
imagination open to the unknown and expand its walls along with my comfort
level for the unexpected. To fear and try to avoid pain and suffering is to
avoid life.
Life is not easy and lately I’ve been feeling the burden of things not
necessarily going my way… the way I imagined them going… the way I
"knew" was best for me. It is funny that when 1 thing goes wrong -
out of the plethora of things that go right -it can bring you and your aura
down to the darkest pit. I have been extremely negative these past few weeks
and need to reel it back in…
It is not easy; I have to take it 1 day at the time (joy and pain). I
need to enjoy life's difficulties. I need to learn to face the ups gracefully
and the downs strongly…
A moment, a love, a dream, a laugh, a kiss, a
cry, my rights, my wrongs…to enjoying life
RosieSandz
