They say you can only move forward in life; that you can't double back and change things that have passed, can't hope for chances to turn around and declare something as different. I say you can. But it's a one-way rail track, they say.
Hmm. But we're not always traveling by train, are we?
Lol. Fine way of putting it. We are, though, travelling a one-way journey indeed, most of the times. We can't undo many, in fact most, choices, can't reclaim chances we've wasted and can't relive the moments we so, so dearly wish would come back...
ReplyDeleteBut sometimes I believe we can work to erase things and start some things anew. Believing some portion of the past can be overlooked and made into something much better in the present and future. And you can only do that by turning right around on those darn railroad tracks and stopping that steamer with your bare hands.
ReplyDeletelol.
agree with what you said though.
Yes indeed some instances of the past can be undone, remedied and redone but that takes a great willingness on one's part :)
ReplyDeletethe notion of changing our past is rather paradoxical don't you think?. I do believe that we can turn portions of our past into better things because almost everyone deserves a chance at redemption. But are we always willing to right a wrong? and do we always know how?, do we even care enough to find out?
ReplyDeleteThat's exactly the point. You'd try if you cared. You'd want to know how to right that wrong, or just improve on things, and then you'd act on it. The problem as i see it is that are people around you willing to be involved? How do you convince the person/people that are a part of that past to be willing to allow you that chance at redemption?
ReplyDeleteIf what you seek redemption from involves a person and or people then things tend to complicate themselves don't they?. What if the person/people are not willing to give you that chance?, is that the end of it? must redemption be sought at all costs or must we push our pasts in the deepest darkest crevices of our minds and then contemplate what that particular truth makes us?
ReplyDeleteBut more importantly i think that we, in our limitless ignorance, do not understand what that chance we so desperately seek truly entails. It depends, in my possibly flaky opinion, on the strength of our conviction. After all; i have come to understand that right and wrong are merely matters of perspective.