Why do certain things happen as they do? Are they meant to, or do coincidences happen? Because if everything is fate, everything is destiny, and it’s all planned, then why must we waste time with people and certain events that don’t play a part in our life. Why must we deal with it? I understand that those situations and people play a part somewhere in our life, but I just feel like it’s almost not worth the pain. It’s almost not worth the hardships that it causes. I feel like I would almost rather alter my fate than have to deal with situations that break my heart and make me feel empty. I suppose we will just have to see what happens.

Life is sometimes frustrating. I hate not being able to control certain aspects of my life, such as emotions, and sometimes memories. Memories are not a bad thing, but sometimes they can overwhelm you. Sometimes you just feel like you wish that situation just wouldn’t have happened so you wouldn’t remember it, and you didn’t have to dwell on it. Although I hate regretting the past, I sometimes find it hard not to; I find it difficult to overlook things that I feel I have done wrong, because I really really want to change them sometimes. But I have to live with the decisions I make.

I did not realize how much I enjoyed my past until now. The past is something that will never come again. Things that you have experienced, memories you have formed, relationships you have forged. All of these are things that are one time events in your life, and you do not realize how much you miss them until they are gone. Concentrate on the here and now, make the right decisions, treat people right, and live with the choices you make, because these times will never come again. Don’t let your past affect your current decisions. It’s an interesting thought to consider that every single person in your life matters as well. Everyone plays a part. As I’ve stated before, the smallest all events could save your life, or it could cause you to die. Don’t underestimate fate, although you shouldn’t regret what you have done, you can always consider what would have happened if you would have done something differently. Don’t despair when you are in a horrible situation, because you will learn something from it, and it will make you a better person in the long run.

I heard an extremely interesting quote today that really made me think. Here’s the quote: “We are shaped by fate just as we shape it,” Wow. Isn’t that an amazing quote? It definitely makes you wonder if you are in control of your own life. All the events that happen to you could be fate shaping you, and you shaping fate by responding to those actions. It’s an amazing thing to think about. We shape our own future daily, is that fate, or are we just here making random decisions that happen to end up a tapestry?

Do we truly know what is best for us? Do we really know what the best choice is, or do we make decisions impulsively? I think a lot of the time we do things based on what would be good for us now, and don’t think about the future. Sometimes we don’t even review our past mistakes. Although you shouldn’t regret the past, you should definitely learn from mistakes that you have made. The present should be our focus, and the future should be what we look forward to.

Have you ever wanted to go back and change something? Change something that you think you’ve done wrong in the past? Think back to a situation, that you may regret, and if you could change it, would you? Should you is a better question. Changing that situation would alter so much. Changing it would in essence make you less aware of your surroundings, less aware of what you should and shouldn’t do in the future. So in a way, the situation that you would like to change, would happen inevitably, because if you went back and changed it, who is to say that you wouldn’t make the same mistake again, because your memories of that situation would be lost. We all have things that we wish we would have done differently. Things that we wish we wouldn’t have said or done, and we say that we would give up so much to go back and correct it. This comes back to the issue of regret. Well if you stop and think about it, to regret something you did, is better to regret something you didn’t do. Altering what you did in the past would do nothing but alter your position now, so would you really want that? Would you want to be less of a person than you are today for one small mistake that you made in the past?

Have you ever wondered what the future will bring? You have to ask yourself, if you could view the future, would you? Because, by simply viewing it, you would change it. If you could glimpse into the future, and see who you were to marry, wouldn’t that change your current situation? Wouldn’t that change your actions around that person? Or do you think fate is so strong that you would end up together anyway? It’s definitely something to think about. Life is a complex thing. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve thought to myself that something was fate, or something was meant to be, but it ended up being me acting on my own impulses. I wanted something that wasn’t necessarily for the best, but I wanted it so bad, I was blinded. I wanted, I didn’t need. It’s necessary to stop sometimes and ask yourself, although you wish something would happen, is it truly what would be best for the long run, or is it just you acting on impulse?