Counter World Clockwise

“to mend the bruises of my spirit.”

                            Aria Sharp - The High Cost of Living

Time changes everything, including who we are.  Without regret, who are we?   If there was never a failure, then what would we have left to learn?  In life, there are tears, regrets, pain and sorrow.  We must learn to understand that everything happens for a reason; even the things that cause suffering, or loss.  It is a hard thing to grasp, and perhaps we are not meant to.  In the beginning, we would rush to change things, to undo the events that hurt us so; but in the end, we must learn to understand that it is not our place to do such.

We are made better for our sufferings, and that is why we are here.

You cannot truly appreciate something unless you are made to realize just how valueable it really is.

We all wish horrible things would never happen.  We long for our loved ones returned, for the unexusible genocides and tragic mistakes of our history to simply not be, to have never existed.

But we must learn instead, that we have no way of knowing what could have been, or will be.   To change what has already happened, you risk changing who you are, we are.

 …And for better, or for worse, that is not our right.   We do not understand the expanses of time, and to think on such a primitive level is to do injustice to ourselves, and to the universe itself.

On a more basic leve; for all the things I wish I could have changed, I will trust that I am better off having made the mistakes, and hope to have learned from them than to wish them away.

We choose our actions; there is no time machine, nor should we use one.

…so perhaps we should learn from the past as well.