The statement made in the title of today's article is a most important one for everyone to get embedded in their consciousness 'You Can't Go Back'.....no you can't; and yet many keep trying to, day after day. Yes indeed, I believe, that we're all inclined to do this every now and then, that is try to go back and thus enjoy the same kind of emotions and experience we did some time ago.
For example: I was visiting with a good friend a while back in his home, and we were just 'Shooting The Breeze', as the saying goes. I was talking with great pride about my Granddaughter who is doing real well in competitive swimming. Actually, she had recently returned from Barbados where she competed for The Bahamas in The Caribbean International Swimming Championships winning four medals.
When I mentioned that, he said that he was involved in Athletics when he was young, and was quite good. Then he said "I always wish I had pursued Athletics more seriously when I was young, perhaps I could have won a scholarship and then gone to college. If I had done that, my life would be a whole lot better today than it is". I immediately said to my friend, thinking like that is a most destructive thing to do because as today's title puts it 'You Can't Go Back'.....no you can't.
Let's face it, we're all inclined to do this at times, that is to wish that we could go back in time and relive our life in some ways differently so that we could produce some different results than those obtained to date. But My Friend, let's face it, we simply cannot go back and relive our lives. So, thinking in this manner is indeed most counter-productive.
Many years ago, I met a very beautiful lady from the Philippines, in Hong Kong and fell madly in love with her. Actually, we were going to get engaged and eventually planned on getting married. However, it just didn't work out as planned. I didn't see her or have any contact with her for a very long time, and then one day I discovered her on Facebook and my heart raced. I was literally high for a couple of days as I started to think about the relationship, could it be rekindled. However, to cut a long story short, it wasn't and my spirits were dashed again.
Eventually, I had to remind myself that the past is over, 'You Can't Go Back' and that my happiness and success lies in The Now. My Friend, please don't try to go back in time and try to fool yourself into believing that you can live in The Past.....because you can't!

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