“How I wish that that I could have the ability to go back in time and set some things right?”
“How I wish that I hadn’t done it that way and instead this way?”
“How I wish that I had not spoken to him so harshly and rudely…would have avoided getting into such a messy relationship with him?”
All of the above and much more are certainly passing thoughts that would have hit each one of us when really bogged down or when we are into situations responsible due to a past happening…they only signify and reiterate that one common desire of having that simple “REWIND” button (which is not as simple as it sounds) with us…to help go back and undo and redo some things that would seem right and sometimes to forget and forgo the past episodes of ones life.
I vividly remember that crisp Saturday morning when I was all set to laze around the whole day…but it was this phone call from one of my colleagues…who called up primarily to complain about the “boss” whom I believe had awarded some task to another fellow colleague instead of her and she had christened the entire episode as “favoritism”. And to add to it she said that I too was a “favorite” of the boss and that I too was involved in the entire plot. I wanted to have a good laugh over the entire cribbing but then decided otherwise. I asked her to pause, “rewind” her way back to that Thursday evening and introspect the entire situation once again. I also asked her that all it would have taken was a simple walk up to the boss and query her on the act, which she didn’t and which eventually led her to mess up her weekend. On calling up the boss, she understood that the boss had observed that she had been away for a good dinner with her friends and that instead of reminding her of a pending task she had only made her life easy by giving away the task to someone else…very simple no complications.
But then that is not to be…we as humans are bound to err…and that is inevitable…but here is an alternative…. instead of just thinking and brooding over the past and its effects on the present and eventually wounding the future as well, why not sit up and take action and control? The many of us who would have cherished that simple desire of a time machine into the past fail to see that with only dreaming and introspecting so much about the past, we tend to lose the present as well. It is more like generating a post mortem report, which eventually can only be filed and stacked in the multitudes of files, and be lost in eternity.
The secret lies in using the “rewind” button as a medium of reflecting all that happened and rising from it. Learn from the mistakes. Remember…mistakes are okay if committed once but they turn to blunders if committed once too often. Stop, think, reflect, retrieve and react…that is the mantra…instead of stopping with just thinking.
So the next time when you are in troubled waters, know for certain that the coast is just an action away. With the strong strokes of the past, swim ahead of the present and reach the shores of a warm and cozy future. Get winding from rewinding.
“How I wish that I hadn’t done it that way and instead this way?”
“How I wish that I had not spoken to him so harshly and rudely…would have avoided getting into such a messy relationship with him?”
All of the above and much more are certainly passing thoughts that would have hit each one of us when really bogged down or when we are into situations responsible due to a past happening…they only signify and reiterate that one common desire of having that simple “REWIND” button (which is not as simple as it sounds) with us…to help go back and undo and redo some things that would seem right and sometimes to forget and forgo the past episodes of ones life.
I vividly remember that crisp Saturday morning when I was all set to laze around the whole day…but it was this phone call from one of my colleagues…who called up primarily to complain about the “boss” whom I believe had awarded some task to another fellow colleague instead of her and she had christened the entire episode as “favoritism”. And to add to it she said that I too was a “favorite” of the boss and that I too was involved in the entire plot. I wanted to have a good laugh over the entire cribbing but then decided otherwise. I asked her to pause, “rewind” her way back to that Thursday evening and introspect the entire situation once again. I also asked her that all it would have taken was a simple walk up to the boss and query her on the act, which she didn’t and which eventually led her to mess up her weekend. On calling up the boss, she understood that the boss had observed that she had been away for a good dinner with her friends and that instead of reminding her of a pending task she had only made her life easy by giving away the task to someone else…very simple no complications.
But then that is not to be…we as humans are bound to err…and that is inevitable…but here is an alternative…. instead of just thinking and brooding over the past and its effects on the present and eventually wounding the future as well, why not sit up and take action and control? The many of us who would have cherished that simple desire of a time machine into the past fail to see that with only dreaming and introspecting so much about the past, we tend to lose the present as well. It is more like generating a post mortem report, which eventually can only be filed and stacked in the multitudes of files, and be lost in eternity.
The secret lies in using the “rewind” button as a medium of reflecting all that happened and rising from it. Learn from the mistakes. Remember…mistakes are okay if committed once but they turn to blunders if committed once too often. Stop, think, reflect, retrieve and react…that is the mantra…instead of stopping with just thinking.
So the next time when you are in troubled waters, know for certain that the coast is just an action away. With the strong strokes of the past, swim ahead of the present and reach the shores of a warm and cozy future. Get winding from rewinding.
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