It's a fault, but I can't help to sometimes revel in the opportunities that should have happened or things that I would have done. I suppose it's human nature to know that there are and always were other options available to us at any given moment. If one thing doesn't happen the way we idealized, then we automatically revert to the options that we could have chosen instead.
For an instant, we find comfort in discussing the other variables that could have occurred but in the end, we are left with a slight feeling of pouty-lipped, ooph-ness.
This is my first post of the year? Yes, why not recognize the (not always so good) things we do in order to better the present and future moments?
My friends and I this year, due to a lack of a task-master, found ourselves in a Subaru Outback stuck in traffic in downtown New Orleans as the clock struck 12 and the new year ensued. The anxiety we put upon ourselves in those last 12 minutes of 2010 was downright absurd!
I'll stop there without telling you of the places we would have gone or the things we should have done instead...yeah, I'll refrain.
This year, today, this moment, I'll cherish where I am, with the people or person I am with and whatever we are doing. I won't imagine the other opportunities I could have taken, but I will be exuberantly excited about the situation I've chosen (or, have been put in) that has led me to each separate experience. I'll look forward to the things I'll do and the people I'll meet, but I won't wonder what would have happened if I'd only picked another path.
