Life as a standing wave
Dec. 8th, 2004 11:46 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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If you persist in framing everything that happens with a negative script, life hardly seems worth living.
It helps me to think this way: I am an organized pattern of thoughts embodied in a chemical/electrical matrix which is constantly decaying and being renewed through its strength of pattern. Most of the atoms in my body are different than the ones of my body ten years ago, and similarly my thoughts and memories are more copies of what was than originals. I am only a cousin of the man and boy I once was. I am constantly losing, and constantly gaining; and if I think if what was and what I have lost and don't think of what will be and what I am gaining, I will miss the glory that is life, and cower from the action that is needed to renew myself.
Learning to enjoy the present -- and acting to realize a better future instead of dwelling on the losses of the past -- helps a lot.
furfairy: discuss]If you persist in framing everything that happens with a negative script, life hardly seems worth living.
It helps me to think this way: I am an organized pattern of thoughts embodied in a chemical/electrical matrix which is constantly decaying and being renewed through its strength of pattern. Most of the atoms in my body are different than the ones of my body ten years ago, and similarly my thoughts and memories are more copies of what was than originals. I am only a cousin of the man and boy I once was. I am constantly losing, and constantly gaining; and if I think if what was and what I have lost and don't think of what will be and what I am gaining, I will miss the glory that is life, and cower from the action that is needed to renew myself.
Learning to enjoy the present -- and acting to realize a better future instead of dwelling on the losses of the past -- helps a lot.
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Date: 2004-12-08 12:06 pm (UTC)I've been told I'm an eternal optinmist, in that I tend to see the glass as 1/2 full, rather than 1/2 empty.
However, it doesn't hurt to see what was then, whether negative or positive and and learn something from then in relation to what's present - and hopefully will guide you into the future.
I do agree that it's not good to dwell on the Ishuldacouldawoulda type of thinking as it only serves to keep you from moving forward and growing and changing as one progresses through life.