I think sometimes we let nostalgia trick us into forgetting that the people in our past are there for a reason.
We must remind ourselves it is either because we purposely left them
there or they ended up there for reasons beyond our control.
It’s okay to think about the past and reminisce the good times
occasionally – but don’t obsess over it to the point where you’re
sacrificing opportunities in the here and now because you’re too
attached to the echoes of things long gone…
The present is the greatest gift you’ll ever have and the future holds
wonders beyond your imagining… Don’t throw it all away by constantly
looking for the things you lost along the way…
TJ
Your life is a story. The days flip past, too quickly to absorb, a mess
of seemingly random events. So you look back and highlight certain
moments as important, as turning points in the main plot. You trace each
thread back to its origin, finding omens and ironies scattered along
the way, until it all feels inevitable, and your life makes sense. You
know how this story is going to end, but you’re still eager to skip
ahead, dying to know what happens next.
But there are times when
you look up and realize that the plot of your life doesn’t make sense to
you anymore. You thought you were following the arc of the story, but
you keep finding yourself immersed in passages you don’t understand.
Either everything seems important or nothing does. It’s a tangled mess
of moments that don’t even seem to belong in the same genre, that
keeping changing depending on what you choose to highlight.
What
kind of story is this? Just another coming-of-age tale, the same one
your parents told, with the names switched around? Is your everyday life
part of the origin story of something truly epic? Are you unwittingly
getting by on other people’s charity, mistaking your own luck for your
own success? Are you a character in a romance, a tragedy, a travelogue,
or just another cautionary tale?
As you thumb through the years,
you may never know where this all is going. The only thing you know is
that there’s more to the story. That soon enough you’ll flip back to
this day looking for clues of what was to come, rereading all the
chapters you skimmed through to get to the good parts—only to learn that
all along you were supposed to choose your own adventure.
TJ
