Daily Cascade

Going Ahead

Prompt:
"You can't backspace your life but you can start a new chapter."
Write about this in your Blog entry today.

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Doesn't this quote mean, "You can't go back, so go ahead"? My question to this quote is: "Do we really have a choice, here?" I mean if mistakes or closed doors and the ends of relationships were written in stone, none of us would be surviving this life in the first place, would we?

Mistakes and what has come to past are not written as the end of our story--in unerasable ink. I know some of us have trouble with letting go, for one reason or another. Still, those who kept staying in failed relationships and wallowed in grief over things that have come to past do exist. So sad!

Our lives don't need to look like polished best-sellers, but they are our very own stories that we have to keep writing. Some pages may still feel unfinished, but that’s okay. As long as we keep on writing and we keep on editing...with love. Yes, love...for ourselves and for those around us who care for us.

In the first place, new beginnings have the power to put the past behind us. That past could be losing someone to death, surviving a divorce, moving to a new city or country, making a career change, or letting our children live their own lives once they've grown up. I have to admit, letting go of the past is a huge job, a very difficult one, as I have personally experienced during the last several years.

Yet, how do we start? I'd say let's start by reevaluating our routine and maybe come up with a new routine, or do something we always wanted to do but couldn't earlier, or do something out of the ordinary, such as learning something new or polishing up something we have put aside due to the old ways and their restrictions. This means rediscovering what we really enjoy.

There are many various ways to rewrite our stories, I am sure, especially when we need to. Rather than look back and miss what has changed, we may need to think about what we can do now that we couldn’t before. In whichever way we handle our lives, the years go by, anyhow, so we might as well be where we would like to be. Granted, a new start can be scary, sad, and exciting, or all those feelings rolled into one.

I don't think we have a choice but go ahead in the best way and fashion to make ourselves feel alive again, no matter how old or young we are. Who knows, we might find out that change in itself can be exciting, too.