Don't Look Back

"It’s simple to fall back into bad habits. They’re like glue; they stick and they hold you down.

Once you have made a decision in your mind, the hardest part is running with it. So many factors are there to get in the way.  Did you make the right call? Did you replay all the outcomes in your head? Will this make you happy?

You can ask yourself 1oo questions, but you’ll never really know unless you just go…and never look back."

FP Jana

You know the story of Lot's wife ( of course, unnamed as most of the women in the bible are) who was told not to turn around and look back, and she did, of course, and she was turned to a pillar of salt.  There are other, more ancient stories that have the same analogy - think Medusa.  It seems, as we age, we look back at more positive things rather than clinging to old negative happenings.  How can we ever experience the rush of happiness and joy and love if we are always stealing furtive glances to our past?

Try walking backwards for a few steps.  Good luck!  You will certainly discover that there are things you have missed. Not only that, but we are darned sure to hurt ourselves if we keep it up. 

Look, we were never meant to walk backwards.  Yes, there are things we learned lessons from; those things that whammed us when we were not looking.  Yes, the past can shape our future.   But, see, if you are not looking at the Present and ahead of us, we will put our self and others because we will keep making the same mistakes, the same challenges will revisit us, and can become paralyzed and not progress in a natural way. 

When we renounce our fears, we can move ahead.  If we do not, we take the risk of crashing and burning over and over and over again.  Why can't we obsess about positive things?  We miss so much focusing behind us.  It is time to step out of the Past's shadows.  There is no real sunshine there except those beautiful memories that we sop up with tears of yesterday.  No matter how rough and tough it was, you are here.  You are now.  You have the world in front of you and you need to be alert and Present to grasp it all.  Drop the habits of yesterday and give it a good go to start some new ones... some positive ones that apply to the moment, to the next moment and the next one.  Be prepared rather than same old same old that finally dumps you down to where that place is that has you saying, "Again!"  

Too many people spend too much of their day
Looking over their shoulder
At what they did some other day
It may have been good
It may have been bad
Whichever way it's kinda sad
They can't learn to look some other way

Don't spend too much of today on yesterday
Cos you can't change the past anyway
Just love to live and live life today
Don't spend too much of today on yesterday

There are so many things to do that haven't been done
There are so many ways to go
That you don't have to run
So try on a few
And see how they fit
I think you'll find that they
Won't hurt a bit
Look at things you can do
Instead of what you have done

If you feel life has done you wrong
Just accept it and move on along
Today is too short it won't last
Live life now don't live in the past

-Lobo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-WglB-Jsprg

©Carol Desjarlais 5.31.19