A Thought by Luke Cowling.
Hindsight is a beautiful thing. Examples pop-up in our every day lives often, and the turn of phrase has survived for as long as it has because of the frequency of it's use. One of the most precious and lengthy examples comes upon the evaluation of ones life; either as it comes to a close, a near death experience, a traumatic event, a midlife crisis, anything of the kind where we really take stock of who we are, and what we've done.
The problem of hindsight is exactly that, one cannot have it until the event has passed. And though we can learn from the experience, that only helps to preempt the next event to a degree, rather than handle it in it's entirety.
The reason I'm being all philosophical with you is that mortality is something we all have in common, and I think a fear of being disappointing in one's life during the stages of evaluation that I mentioned earlier, is one that I feel a lot of people would share with myself.
So, what's the solution? Well, much like the creation quote I shared a few days ago, this is also something I read on the deep recesses of the internet, and one who's author I do not recall. This could obviously be solved by a simple google search, but I feel the message it's what is most important, and the rest is dust really.
"How we spend our days, is how we spend our lives."
And I love this and think on it often, because I think it is the really only way to preempt this disappointing feeling one might feel toward the close of their life. To be conscious of how you spend your days, what you do each day, how different one day is to the next, and how you sum up large periods of your life. If you are not disappointed with these periods, that feeling is not like to change on your deathbed, probably anyway, let me know when you get there.
LPC.
Hindsight is a beautiful thing. Examples pop-up in our every day lives often, and the turn of phrase has survived for as long as it has because of the frequency of it's use. One of the most precious and lengthy examples comes upon the evaluation of ones life; either as it comes to a close, a near death experience, a traumatic event, a midlife crisis, anything of the kind where we really take stock of who we are, and what we've done.
The problem of hindsight is exactly that, one cannot have it until the event has passed. And though we can learn from the experience, that only helps to preempt the next event to a degree, rather than handle it in it's entirety.
The reason I'm being all philosophical with you is that mortality is something we all have in common, and I think a fear of being disappointing in one's life during the stages of evaluation that I mentioned earlier, is one that I feel a lot of people would share with myself.
So, what's the solution? Well, much like the creation quote I shared a few days ago, this is also something I read on the deep recesses of the internet, and one who's author I do not recall. This could obviously be solved by a simple google search, but I feel the message it's what is most important, and the rest is dust really.
"How we spend our days, is how we spend our lives."
And I love this and think on it often, because I think it is the really only way to preempt this disappointing feeling one might feel toward the close of their life. To be conscious of how you spend your days, what you do each day, how different one day is to the next, and how you sum up large periods of your life. If you are not disappointed with these periods, that feeling is not like to change on your deathbed, probably anyway, let me know when you get there.
LPC.
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