When There Was A New Beginning

“A good heart and good intentions must lead to good actions before they con truly be commendable.”
-Astoria Alms

When we are faced with an innumerable amount of regrets concerning our life and the decisions we have made, there are few things we can do, but sigh and accept the things which we cannot change. Though one could easily decide to live in the prison that is the past, or long for the promised gates of the future, the important Moment is passing us by. To live within oneself, constantly reflecting on the things that could have been done or the things that should not have been done, is not only unprofitable, but rather cost-detrimental. They take a toll on the human mind, they wear out the heart, and they weaken the soul. If we live everyday wishing it were yesterday, there is an infinity lying between the nothing of yesterday and the possibility of today.

Though of course one should look upon yesterday with the eye of a passing observer, gathering information but not becoming heavily immersed, one must maintain a distance for all has passed. The Moment is lost if not completely appreciated at the time. Thus one must wake up everyday, every single day, every morning, every sunrise, as if it were the first. It is sheer madness to live as if each day is the last because then everything is absorbed in such a rapid way that there is nothing savored softly. To live each day as if it were your first entails feeling everything with the innocence that comes from experiencing the new. Opening your eyes is such a simple human activity, something that we take for granted everyday, but when one truly opens one’s eyes, the world’s intensity level rises more than can be possibly be comprehended.

Everything has so many possibilities, if we could only just perfectly balance our past and our present, to have the courage to reach out and touch the future.