12.1.2014

"Embrace your foe and become his friend. Become someone he absolutely cannot survive without, and then stab him in the back and walk away."

Note to Self

The sad truth is that there really is no going back. No reliving the carefree days of our youth. No recapturing the warmth of that first love. No returning to that time in life when things seemed simple and calm and happy.

This doesn’t have to be a bad thing. Sure, those days and circumstances are gone forever. Still, always lamenting the present and idealizing the past will only lead to a constant state of disappointment. Look to the future, and do so with the knowledge that obtaining the past is impossible. Remember those moments, cherish them in your memories, but do not expect them to repeat.

People change with every minute of experience. Even if transported somehow into a treasured memory, it won’t be the same, evoke remembered feelings. In the end, disappointment will always follow. That’s why the future is so precious. There is always hope that, somehow, things will become better. That no matter how many times we are broken, changed, and still hurting, maybe just the simple knowledge that our circumstances will eventually change is enough.

The past is gone, the present is now, but the future is a possibility that has not yet been tossed aside. We cannot go back, but we can push forward.