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TRAVEL BACK IN TIME
What would you do if I could provide you with the opportunity to travel back in time and re-take a very poor choice that you made somewhere in your past? Would you grasp such opportunity with both hands? Would you still accept my offer if I added that you will be allowed to make a different choice, but then you lose everything that happened to you since that fateful day.
You will lose all the money you earned, the friends you made and all the other things that you participated in since that fateful day. Do you feel convinced that your life would have turned out so much better if you decided differently on that fateful day? Can you with a high degree of certainty say that your life would have been much better than it turned out for you up to now?
Most people hesitate when I ask them this question because they do not want to take the risk of the alternative choice and the unknown that they will be force to travel in. What people often forget is that they start each day with the unknown staring them in the face. The day becomes what they make of it. The quality of your life is decided by the quality of the choices that you make.
We sometimes make wise choices and our boat of life travels on calm waters for a while, but sometimes we make poor decisions and end up getting beaten to a pulp by the force of the waves of life. The real key to life is to accept that you will never be able to make wise choices all the time. You will remain an apprentice human until the day you die. You can read all the books you can lay your hands on and will still be face with the unpredictable.
The only sure thing in life is that you will never reach a permanent safe harbor. You will never be fully out of danger and could fall prey to an endless number of things every second that you are alive. There will be very little benefit in going back to retake your perceived poor decision. Soon after you made the perceived “right” choice your life will begin to gravitate in the same direction you find yourself in today.
You might as well accept that life is not fair and that the only way to live is to give each moment the best you have. You are making up your life story as you go along. You must begin to believe in yourself and know that you will be able to take care of whatever you are confronted with.
NO MORE “IF ONLY” HARD LUCK STORIES
It is easy to look back on your life and to search for excuses for your bad lucks and touch breaks. You can sit and feel sorry for yourself all you like. Nothing will get better or change if you do not accept the fact that “shit happens” all the time and that it is part of being alive. You will never reach a stage where you will be able to feel really secure and tranquil. You will be faced with changes and problems until the final day you spend on this troubled plane.
Most people that “role play” that they love and respect you are doing it for the benefits that they have of being associated with you. You are fooling yourself if you think that most people that are currently playing in your game of life really care about your feelings, emotions and dreams. They might not even know it themselves, but they are connected to you because there is some kind of benefit for them in the deal.
Wake up and smell the coffee my friend. You are the only person that can do something about your fate. You can engineer your life into a ditch or a million dollar home. You are in for a nasty surprise if you continue to wait for others to make life happen for you, You will one day find out that a large number of the people that attended your parties and drank your wine are nothing more than human parasites. They feed off your energy, money, insecurity or some other benefit that their association with you brings them. You will one day discover how most of these rats jump ship when your boat of life begins to take in too much water.
Rene
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