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Our life: an ongoing parade

Posted on September 17, 2015 Updated on September 15, 2015

Here I go again, relying on Dr. Bernie S. Siegel to provide some wisdom for your day, but what can I say, his 365 Prescriptions for the Soul catches my attention more often than not and when it does, I like to share the good stuff I find.  The following is provided verbatim:

Parade of Life

Forget past mistakes. Forget failures. Forget everything except what you are going to do now, and do it. – William Durant

Life is a parade. Sometimes we march along and realize we have passed by what we were looking for.  What do we do?  Stand there and drop out of the parade?  March on with regrets?  Feel bad about how we looked or that everything we wanted was on the wrong side of the street?  It’s passed!  Forget it and march on!

Sometimes our parade isn’t so pretty, and the crowd isn’t interested in us.  If we drag everything we have passed with us, we will destroy the present.  We have no future when we live in the past.

We even talk about past lives.  Whether you believe in them or not, the same principle applies.  If you are living a past life, you are destroying your present one.  In therapy, people come to understand why they are acting the way they are and how the past is affecting them.  They learn to let go, move on, and not sit in the same classroom year after year.  They graduate and commence a new life.

A closing comment by this blogger:

The good news is that we can learn from our past, both the good and the bad.  But if we stay cemented in the past and don’t move on, that parade Dr. Siegel talks about?  It’ll pass us by.

I don’t know about you, but I don’t want to get left behind.