Don’t Water Dead Flowers
We are not defined by our past, so there is no point living in it. It’s important to understand where you came from, to learn and gain experience from our previous choices but don’t spend your time thinking about things you can’t change or memories you can’t relive.
Often at times we cling on to our past self without realizing the detrimental effect “the old you” has on the possible future you. We yearn to spend days with our friends on the same bar or café, have the same conversation, the same laugh and the same feeling. That’s the thing about moments, they are instantaneous. Every heard the expression “LIVE FOR THE MOMENT”?
A friend of mine told me that we spend most of our lives stuck on wishing and holding on to people, habits or memories that we should let go of. The beauty of everything lies in the fact that it doesn’t span forever. Everything has an ending. Your suffering will not last forever nor will your happiness, that’s life. Time has a way of making us feel insignificant. It humbles you, and knowing that everything is but temporary will make you enjoy and appreciate moments, friendships and relationships even better.
Stop holding on to things that you should let go of. Let go and stop trying to recreate things that have already passed. Live the moment; enjoy it, breathe it and when it is time, let it go.
Some of us are stuck in friendships we know are dead, let it go. That relationship that no longer works, let it go. Torturing yourself because of a “mistake” you did two years back, let it go. The situation you are in right now, it won’t last forever. Enjoy the now, enjoy the present and live for every moment knowing that it will come to an ending at some point. Stop being concerned with what was and what will be.
There is a saying: yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, but today is a gift. That is why it is called the present.
