THE PAST IS A TRAP…
Some people struggle with their past
Some of us struggle with the present.
The past is a trap where many are held bound.
The present for others is their greatest fear as the terrifying feeling of the unknown keeps staring us in the face each and every new day like today, while the creeping feeling of the “what if” keeps touring our minds like a tourist to an unknown destination.
It’s quite hard to find someone who has no regret about one thing or another in the past. The human life is greatly characterised by difficult moments and unplanned occurrences. In as much as that is true, our disposition to whatever the event of life may be speaks volume of our ability to stay in charge of our situation irrespective of what may come our way . . . Like the singer Madonna said in her song titled ‘Frozen’, “you only see what you want to see. How can life be what you want it to be? You are frozen when your heart is not open . . .” This means that if you dont open your mind to see life beyond the possible as a human person, then you may one day die of shock when life decides to diss you in the way you never envisioned. Life will always put us in dilemma or delicate situations where we have to make choices that can change the course of our lives forever thus leaving us in perpetual regret of either the past, the present and even most worrisome the future.
We can never get the value of life when we keep holding onto our hurts or fears. Little wonder the music makers as well as the wise sayings have in their different ways and times asked us to live each day as if it’s the last.. . This is also the lyrics of another singer, Lucky Dube. What this implies is that, no one should waste their time worrying and thinking hard of life and things they cannot change. Instead, let’s spend our time making ammends of things we may have done wrong and also try to enjoy every passing moment as though it’s our last.
From the lines above, it is obvious that there is no gain in stressing over what is done neither is there any gain in troubling over what we cannot change or even what is to come because no one knows the future nor what it holds but we can always make our peace whether it’s from event of the past,present or future. May we never be trapped.
