Life Can Only Be Understood Backwards

Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.~Soren Kierkegaard

In looking back on ones life, we could easily hold grudges or use events as excuses to why or why not things worked as they should have. Or we could simply accept them as they were, knowing we are exactly where we’re supposed to be. Again…it is merely a choice.

What if we are not where we would like to be? Then I guess the universal forces are calling to make necessary changes in our lives. There is always an opportunity for change and the time is always now. What holds us back?

Holding to the past, we cannot grasp the future. Letting go of the past, accepting everything as “it should be” we allow ourselves a clearer understanding of what we are to do. What is it that we are supposed to do? Live.

Living in the past we cannot fully live, as we are weighted down by the shortcomings or excuses to what might be. Look back, reflect…but then let go. A new day is upon us…a new opportunity to Live…

Life can only be understood backwards