In This Life Is There Room For Regret?

You live your life once, that is what people say time and time again.  If you were able to actually relive your life as people say, would you want to?  Would you mull over all the regrets, the blunders, hiccups and mistakes to re do everything so there would be a better outcome or even a different outcome.  I believe and we have heard this before everything happens in our life for a reason.  Whatever the reason there is a lesson to be had.  So pay attention to your blunders, they are your compass for furthering your success and perhaps enriching your life in other ways.

Of course everyone thinks back and thinks "yikes, how did I ever let that one happen, never again!"  In the time and space of the hiccup though, everything seems right, normal.  These things that we go through aid us in picking ourselves up again, going the extra mile and it allows you to have perhaps more determination.  It gives you an edge, an idea about life, a new and broadened understanding and character within yourself. 

I look around at this imperfect earth and think to myself "What a Wonderful World"!  Of course the empty glass scenario comes up, I fill my glass myself...no one else is going to fill it, so why don't I fill that glass every time I need a refill, at my free will and at my discretion?  If you needed gas for your car to get from A to B, you fill it, completely full and you feel comforted by the fact that you can get around, happily and with no unneeded worry.  You feel within your car, full up. 

Think of a half Moon at night, if it is half full, does it give you any less energy that you need. No, it does not.  The Moon, like all of life and through out all blunders and hiccups, gives as much energy that you personally need in a day or night.  Would you say about the Moon... "OH NO, the moon is only half full and complain about the need for it's fullness, would you regret that half Moon? I don't think that would happen.  Instead we look at the Moon and Stars and say "How beautiful it is to see the night sky"  We miss that beautiful sky to gaze upon each day and miss the Suns warmth and glow every night.  Let's live life with that excitement and then pay attention to it's wonderment.

Perhaps if we are only living out half of our life and are just going through the motions in our daily on goings then sure, there may be some regret or even a lot of regret.  The should of's, would of's and could of's come up and then feel empty, and the life you had planned and even dreamed of, feels out of our reach and further and further away, feeling impossible to grasp.

Never look back in regret, instead look upon your life, the past, present and tomorrow as if in "AWWE" of how spectacular it is, how magnificent it is and how the wonderful challenges you go through are teaching you to go further, to do it a little bit better, to make your life down the road even easier.  Live your life with a half moon attitude "with no regreat" and know that every single day you are giving it your all!  For one day you may be giving it 50% to some, though to you it feels like your giving it 100%, some days you will be giving life 75% to some, but to you it feels like150%.  As a human, you are always at the top of your game, giving it your all, doing your personal best. 

How then could we ever look back on life and regret anything that has happened, anything that we undergo, any mistakes we have made?  Then when we are 80 or 90 or beyond, how could we ever regret anything when there are still Birthday candles to blow out, still Birthday wishes to make that we still keep secret, Birthday cards to open with kind thoughts towards you and your day, gifts to unwrap that are full of surprise and people clapping as they sing to you.  How can we ever be regretfull in this life, when there are moons to see, beaches to sink your toes into, waves to catch, Christmas lights to shine and chocolate eggs to hunt for and gather. 

Life is magnificent, every day is new, every hour in that day is just for you, to do things differently, try different avenues, turn a corner instead of going the straight road.  Every day you have the opporunity to make a new choice, instead of regret, celebrate life and everyday in that life and there will be no time or energy for waisted regret.  Instead there may be one night sky with a half moon, one night sky with a quarter moon, one night a full moon. And every now and again and once in a while, there will be blue moon where you sit back and think back on life and the truly wonderful and glorious life that you have lived; with out regret and where your moon is always full.