By Karen Pedersen
Crystal Clear Laughter & Hypnosis
What if you could do it all over again? Relive your past but this time as the person you are right now? Take everything you have learned over the years and apply it. Fix the mistakes. Right the wrongs. And make better choices this time.
It would be the ultimate do-over. Would you do it?
Of course not! Your past is what made you into the person you are today, right? Without those scars you wouldn’t be who you are. There isn’t a single thing you would ever, ever, want to change, right? Maybe, maybe not. It’s just not an option. So in an effort to make yourself feel better about the fact that you feel helpless over the past, you try and convince yourself that you wouldn’t change a thing. That you love the person you have become. The Truth Is…
Of course you would like to change something given the choice. We all have things we have done or said that we regret. Choices that we have made that we wish we could do differently given the chance. Some might be really small. Others might alter life as you now know it. But there is definitely something.
No one is 100% satisfied with every moment of their life. And just like the rest of us, you would jump at the opportunity to change it. The chance to set things right. To heal old wounds. Or take action so you no longer have to live in that resentment over something in your past.
And You Can. Right Now.
You can’t go back and change something that you said. But you can do something to make it right…right now.
You can’t go back and change a decision that you made. But you can change the path you are on regardless of your age…right now.
You can’t go back and change something bad that happened to you. But you can change the meaning that you gave it…right now.
Right now is the past that you are going to resent in the future.
Right now is the moment that you are going to someday wish you had made the tough decision.
Right now is your chance to fix tomorrow before it becomes yesterday.
There was a lovely quote in my doctor’s office. When asked “How would you have lived your life differently if you had a chance?” Nadine Stair, an 85-year-old woman, from Louisville, Kentucky, provided these poetic words as her response…
“If I had my life to live over, I’d dare to make more mistakes next time. I’d relax. I would limber up. I would be sillier than I have been this trip. I would take fewer things seriously. I would take more chances. I would take more trips. I would climb more mountains and swim more rivers. I would eat more ice cream and less beans. I would perhaps have more actual troubles but I’d have fewer imaginary one. You see, I’m one of those people who live sensibly and sanely hour after hour, day after day. Oh, I’ve had my moments and if I had it to do over again, I’d have more of them. In fact, I’d try to have nothing else… Just moments…one after another, instead of living so many years ahead of each day. I’ve been one of those people who never go anywhere without a thermometer, a hot water bottle, a raincoat and a parachute. If I had my life to live over, I would start barefoot earlier in the spring and stay that way later in the fall. If I had it to do again, I would travel lighter next time. I would go to more dances. I would ride more merry-go-rounds. I would pick more daisies.” ~Nadine Stair, age 85 ~
“Dance like nobody’s watching; love like you’ve never been hurt. Sing like nobody’s listening; live like it’s heaven on earth.” ~Mark Twain ~
