Never Can Say Goodbye...but maybe you should

I had a relatively good conversation with someone from my former life and it touched me. In my previous life, this person and I had good intentions for each other but rarely acted on them. Our thoughts were not with creating a good now or a good future, but on ourselves and our own selfish interest in being around each other. Care was there, but we weren't. The point of all of this is that she's happy, I'm almost happy and life continues in its respective course.

So often in our lives we focus on what was in the past and how our nows do not reflect as good as an experience. Too many of the problems we face in life are because we think our now doesn't measure to the past. But it doesn't occur that the past and the failures or its success shaped our now and provided the tools to achieve in the now. For every bad occasion, there is and can be a divinely good result. People go on to be successful and purposeful based off of the horrors and the pain they felt during a time of grief. Human beings are inherently resilient.

Too many times, we each complain and negate the beauty within our daily lives only to focus on what we don't have, what we missed, or what we want.



A book that I read recently by Eckard Tolle, "The Power of Now" that teaches us to focus our energy in making our now the best time of our life by focusing the energy in our lives into it. While it speaks of now in a metaphysical sense, you can apply it to being a better person today instead of working in order to become one tomorrow. Focus on seeing the beauty of the situation now and the positives, instead of seeing the negatives of the past. Sometimes bad situations are a test; think of Moses and the Jews in the wilderness for 40 years (or if your secular think of Kevin Garnett on all those horrible TWolves teams before going to the Celtics). Every bad situation isn't the end and even if it is the end, then there is always a new beginning where the lessons of the past and the scars created form something new that is beautiful and unique.