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RE: Random Thoughts on a Monday January 8, 2018
Thanks for the mention @merej99... and I'm afraid I don't have any easy answers.
There is this, though: WHY are we looking backwards? WHAT is it that we miss? And why isn't it HERE, now?
Last couple of years I have been forcing myself to spend more in a state of gratitude. What I really mean there is... being in a state of remembering and focusing on what is good and right, rather than obsessing over what is "missing." Life really IS pretty good!
That said, the while "What is the good life?" might be a really good writing exercise.
I think I look backwards because there is a certain amount of security there. It's a notch on the growth chart. It might not be a comfortable place but it's familiar.
@onceuponatime mentioned in his #fivefacts post that he'd lost everything 3 times. I've lost, or felt like I'd lost everything at least twice. Looking back on in I wonder how I made it through but on the flip side, if it happened in the here and now I know I would survive it -- and the suck would be like an old, familiar blanket.