I have been on this planet for 33 years now, done lots of things, wish I had done alot more, I do have some regrets, but we all have regrets. The what might have beens, the I wish I had done that, or done better at school. But these are past events they have happened. We have to go forward and never back, and far too many people dwell on past events.
You have family feuds, and some people hate each other because of who they are, the family name. Go and ask both sides of the feud, and chances are that they can not remember why they hate each other, It was maybe a differance of opinion many years ago, and the following generations have carried the feud on. Sometimes the feuds affect whole communities, countries, religions. Doesnt matter how you look at it, feuds stem round past events, maybe both sides need to look to the future and sort things out.
I am guilty of dwelling on the past, thinking about the what might have beens, yet not taking notice of the now. There have been times where I have reflected on the past, maybe looking back to a time where I may have liked a girl, but never did anything about, because I was scared of being rejected at the time, only to bump in to that girl, who has now become a woman, she has married and had children, made a life for her self, she lets on that she really liked me at school and wished I had asked her out.
Yes I could have been the one, but my life would be so different, maybe I would be part of a family unit, mortgaged up to my eyes, maybe I would be happy, I dont know. But It never happened, so why dwell on it.
Our society is a very complicated web of peoples lives all interlinked with each other, We all have different skills, and by working together, we make use of those skills and the skills of other people. Some of the skills are dying out, so I falls to some people to teach the next generation.
How often do you ask the question, why was I put on this planet? well the simple answer is to breed and carry on the genes, it is not the only reason though.
This last year has been an interesting one, and in some ways my life is different to how it was a year ago, It must have been a couple of years ago that I started to try and discover myself, I started by carrying a note book, to write down my thoughts, whilst on trips out. I still have this book, and several people have read it. maybe I might publish the thoughts oneday.
But back the matter in hand, time does not stand still, we are all born, we learn, we marry and start a family, we work hard, we retire and we die. This is the life cycle and yes that has been put in to mechanical terms, life is not mechanical, you can not tell your toaster your innermost thoughts, well you can but it wont listen, it is an object.
One less pleasant thing about life is, we will all lose friends, due to different reasons, Some may move on and go their separate ways, but some will pass away, and the older we get the more often it happens, and there is nothing that can prepare us for loss. Especially when that person is taken away before their time.
But there is one positive, there are lots of people out there, whose lives have not been touched by us, our future friends, the ones who we have not yet met. I remember after leaving school, and yes I was saying goodbye to lots of people who I had grown up with, within a few months I was to make friends with a new set of people, and through mediums such as Facebook, I have got back in touch with lots of people I lost contact with all those years ago. I have made some new friends too.
The true friends are the ones who, you may not see for many years, but when you do meet up, it is as if that time has not past, the common ground is still there, call it a magnetic force. One example of was when I was sat at home one night.
I was on Facebook, and thinking about who I could look up, I thought of one particular friend, who I had not seen since leaving college, so I typed in his name on to the search, but just as I was doing this a message came through, it was a friend request from the very person I was looking up, now very coincidental, even spooky, but I am so glad it happened, We have met up a few times, we both share a love of music, he has even opened my mind musically too, and I had the pleasure of attending his wedding.
So things do happen for reasons, we have to move with the times, and even though friends go their separate ways, if the bond is strong enough, then one day the paths will cross once more.
So on that note I am going for now and I hope our paths cross very soon, TTFN
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