Blips along eternity

 

My life is important to me. It is the only one I have and so, like most people, everything that happens to me seems important.

My best moments and my worst. The glorious and the shameful. The fair and the unfair. To me these events are monumental. I can believe they are the only things that matter in the moment they occur and that they set the tone for the rest of my life.

It is true that within a village, or city, or county, or even a state, these things can seem enormous, but in the course of history most of them will not be remembered. They will not even be a blip on the timeline of the centuries that follow.

Sometimes it is necessary to step back and look at the world from a distance. 

i cannot change the past, but I have much power over the future. My power may stop at the end of my nose, but that is okay. I can choose how I react. I can choose my attitude. I can choose to go forward and make the best out of what is there.

My time on earth, long or short, is all I have, so I need to choose to use it the best way possible. Always starting from this point forward.