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Love2Lyrics | New Hartford, NY • United States , Age 16

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Living In The Now

Dec 07, 2007 - 22:53 PM PST

It takes a lot for a person to move on. Most of us tend to dwell on the past. It's easy to do, because who wants to live in the now that's so crappy and depressing? We like to dream about the past, concoct ideas about what we could have done differently, even pretend we are back there. But the truth is we need to start "grabbing life by the horns" and just live day to day. It's too much effort to live in the past, because guess what... things aren't changing anytime soon no matter how hard you wish. I guess everything happens for a reason and we just have to roll with it. You may not realize it now but you're better off in the future than you are living in the past. At least you can manipulate what is going to happen to you, there's nothing you can do about what has already happened. Easier said than done right?

I have trouble doing this, I try to live in the now, but once I get rolling I just end up tumbling back to the past. There's not a day that goes by that I don't think about what I coulda shoulda woulda done. I lose sight of what's going on right in front of me and just think about what is already done. I do live my life with no regrets though...Is that weird? I think about how I could have done something differently but I don't regret what I did in the first place?

"Don't spend you're life on the bench while everyone else is on the field."

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z1nab

Dec 20, 2007 - 17:29 PM

i've passed that step already, when i was 16 i'd keep rerembering what mistakes i've done all day and all week and it would keep me up at night... i was overthinking pessimist metaphores about why was i the way i am without never trying to change. you must never let these ideas roll in your skull. imagine these ideas as if they were motorcyclists. remember that tv show where 3 motorcyclists were rolling across each other in a spheric cage? now imagine a fourth motorcyclist in the same cage, and boom! that's what happens. i've learn to move on because life sure is a bitch. you need to slap it around a bit with dary moves and audacious ideas. and after all, "no pain, no game."!

ultralimin...

Dec 08, 2007 - 01:19 AM

Hey Love2Lyrics -- I saw your message in the last posts list and decided to see what you wrote. I read "Pessimist" first. It made me sad because you were so unhappy. I've just read "Living in the Now." I hope you realize how much you grew in between those two blog entries. How much power you took for your self, your own life. I'm going to be 57 on Monday. Ancient by your measure. I've had a lot of heartache and loss like you said in Pessimism. But a lot more joy and love. And it's worth going through those down times to really get to the good times. Good luck.