Strings that bind us together

What would you do if you had one day, just one day to make up for any regrets that you had?  What if you were given this opportunity, just one day, to fix anything that went wrong in the past?  What would you do?  What would you change? Would you have done things differently?  Would you have said something else?  Would you have grabbed at that opportunity that passed by?  Would you have stepped forward instead of turning away?

I wouldn’t.  Sure, there might have been times in the past where things might have been different if I did something different.  But what we sometimes fail  to realise is that something else comes up as a consequence of that so-called “wrong” action.  Perhaps indirectly, it did bring about something good, if not in your life, then in someone elses’.  I believe that something good comes out of even the worst things.  Not directly, but indirectly.  I believe that things are inexplicably tied to each other like a hypothetical musical instrument where you pluck one string and some other string in the far distance resonates with it, while the string that was plucked is unaware of that.  Sometimes we look back and get upset by something that could be.  Nevertheless what is in the past is only a distortion of memory.  We remember what we choose to, and leave out what we don’t wish to remember, so more often than not, memory isn’t accurate.  We idealise what we want to believe.  Truth is, what “could have been” would probably not have been even if we did it in the “ideal way”.

Thinking of what if-s will only make one depressed.  Why look back on a chapter that has already passed by?  What use will thinking about what could have been or what should have been?  It’s not like we can go back and change the past.  Life is short.  Just seize what you have TODAY and forget about the past.

What would you do if you have that one day to go back and change things?  Forget about it.  You won’t be getting that one day.  Not now, not ever.

Because all history is, is to remind us that we can make a better future.