You can’t change . . . the past

# Chapter 335

Long road trips. These are good places to think . . . sometimes. Other times they are just places to worry about all that is happening in your car engine, the other drivers around you and all that could happen in the endless hours ahead of you. There comes a point where you have to decide how you are planning to spend these hours. I confess that I split my time about 50/50 on this particular trip. I had some non-working instruments on the dash and they kept me hovering constantly over the working instruments so that I could make certain that I did not blow the engine. Otherwise I would have, I like to think, spent more time thinking and less time fretting.

We all face such life dilemmas regularly. It would bode well for the best outcomes if we decided ahead of time what we wanted more with the opportunities that come our way, and even what we plan to do with the distractions that cause the dilemmas. I can’t get these last two days back. What I did with them I did with them and there is no going back and changing anything. I can only change the future, not the past. You have the same challenge. When will we become future focused just enough to live in the proper present and not let it pass us by with regrets? Even at 60 years of age I am still striving for that precise balance. So it is not an easy task to solve and its kind of squishy and ever-changing in that no two situations are ever the same, so there is no way that you or I can make ONE decision and it work for each day. But we can still decide each morning that we are gonna use this day in this particular way.