Recently I have been thinking about a mistake I made many years ago.
In my heart of hearts I know that my life right now, and the future I have before me, would not be the fun, amazing, love-filled wild ride that it is without that mistake. I would be somewhere completely different. I would be different.
Still, it laboured on my heart a little. In the cold, puddle littered streets, in the comforting warmth of the tube carriage home. I scribbled down the cacophony of thoughts in my head. Until suddenly, this morning, there were words, words that helped form the most sensible thought I've had on this whole affair.
Choose your future, not your past.
Thank you for this Phil, this and the wonderful link. I've been labouring under several huge transitions and watching my future take turns I never expected a year ago. And I know I'm only about half way there right now.
ReplyDeleteBut I need to focus on now, not what might have been, and I need to enjoy that. :)
I love this. It is so true. Even things in your past that may have been hard or you may have regretted, they happen for a reason to make you who you are. Without pain, we wouldn't realize what happiness is. Thanks for a great post! :)
ReplyDeleteOnly one mistake...I've got notebooks full...
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this fills me up!
ReplyDeletewonderful. I don't know about you but I have decided I have made no 'mistakes'.
There have been, however, many many 'learning events' :)
xxx
Such a great quote!
ReplyDeleteThis post couldn't be more timely for me, thanks!
Also so timely for me Phil!
ReplyDeleteI need to write this down on my inspiration board at home - Choose your future, not your past. Even thougn I know it, sometimes it's easy to put in the back of my mind :)
*hugs* x
mistakes are just way points on the path to the real you. If you don't find the mistakes you never become the real you.
ReplyDeleteIt's a great quote - one that makes me think about my mistake that if I hadn't made it would not have started the chain of events that had taken me to a place where I am happy.
It's why you never regret only remember and learn.
have a great weekend
Very timely inspiration - thanks Phil. Hopefully time will show it to be true!
ReplyDeleteDarl, if hadn't travelled that path, you wouldn't be where you are today (and I don't have to remind you how terribly proud of you I am, do I?)
ReplyDeleteEmotionally, physically & geographically.
But yes, agreed - live not in the past
xx Shona
Thank you all for your lovely comments! Here's to looking forward, not looking back :) xx
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