New Old Stuff: Part 2 - Spontaneous Thoughts on a Thing Called Life

Here's another old post that I've needed to take a look at on numerous occasions even well after I wrote it myself.


This piece was written in a flurry of logical thought regardless of emotional interference. A simple message of wisdom I felt should be shared and as well I am needing to recall this to mind often as of late for it seems I am doing precisely what I warned not to do. I am at a time of necessary growth in my life and this is part of the first steps I've been needing to work on. And in fact, my next piece has a focus on change, choice, and a past to future theme, however in the more 'creative' format. I hope to be finishing that one soon enough, but for now...


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Spontaneous Thoughts on a Thing Called Life
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My many many many many many many many many many many many many many many lots of mistakes have taught me much in life. I asked for wisdom. I did not, however, specify the means in which I would have liked to receive said wisdom. Failing is a part of life. It is in how we look back on those failures which reveals the level of maturity and growth in ourselves. Do we learn from them and move on? Or do we wallow in our regrets of the past and stubbornly remain stagnant in our painfully foolish efforts of refusing to grow? I say this in a weak measure of experience that only continues to profess my express need for Wisdom. I can only assume that I shall fail all the more in my search for such a valued thing. Yet I welcome those fallings-short with the faint, but present, thought of how much I may yet succeed thereafter with the knowledge gained in experiences both pleasant and unpleasant alike. To fear failure and thus keep passive in life is a failure in itself. How can you learn and grow in the outside world when you refuse to open a door? To step away from the comfort of enclosed places which only babes and infants still desire? Mistakes made take their toll in solemn regret, but to let such a weak piece of history control the heart, from which all true actions proceed, is folly. Spin the failings of the past to a strength that becomes a part of who you are. To declare that you will constantly strive to exceed yourself, becoming a limitless possibility of being better than yourself. But not for yourself. To be better for the sake of those closest to your heart, as well as the constant sea of people that sift around you.