Today I walked past my past and it didn’t recognise me. My past had long beautifully straightened hair, wore a business suit and sported a gorgeous leather briefcase. My past is still close to the friends of my youth, has the job I thought I wanted and the man of her dreams. My past is blissfully happy without me.
Have you ever had a ‘Sliding Doors’ moment where it is clear that without even knowing it you had taken a fork in the road? Have you ever wondered what life might have been like, if you had made different decisions?
The truth is that your decisions shaped who you are and who you are shaped your decisions. Had you chosen the other fork you may have been more, or less, happy than you are now. But you wouldn’t be you. Not the you you are today, anyway. You made the best decisions you could with the information and resources available and in the process you created your life.
My past looks like I had expected it to look, it is exactly where I had imagined it would be. I, on the other hand, am very far from where I thought I would be and I am a very different person to the one I thought I would grow up to be. I am glad I took another road to the one my 17 year old self had selected for me. My new road has shaped me.
I walked past my past today, but it didn’t recognise me.
Tags: Dreams, Friendship, Lessons, Observations, Personal Growth, Youth
This is an incredibly poignant post. It has left me with shivers and made me feel aware and in choice. Thank you Rae!
I have no doubt your past would stop and gaze in complete awe (and gasp in disbelief at the amazing cake decorating
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This post epitomises one of the most important things you have taught me – that no decision I have made was wrong, it was, as you say \"the best decisions you could (make) with the information and resources available\". It\’s how I move forward from that decision, and use what I learn to make the next one that counts. Thanks for teaching me this in the first place, and reminding me here : )
I think my past would have been worse if i had not made the right decisions but i never thought of my life in such a way like Rubens said you left me shivers in my spine.
So I think that there is good information here. Thanks for the contribution!