If your life were a storybook and you had a sneak peek at the ending and knew what was going to happen, would this alter how you do everything now?
Would it make you change the way you do things? Would it make you alter what could happen? Would it make you more relaxed or would it make you more anxious?
Some days feel like a hamster wheel; we get up, we go to work, we come home, maybe some other bits in the middle but all in all, it is similar. This week I have been thinking about how a lot of people are struggling as countries go into winter and back into lockdowns to try and curb the new cases of COVID-19. Don’t worry this is not another COVID post. People are struggling more this time, as it is happening again when the weather is colder and questioning when it is going to end. I have even found myself saying, if only we knew when it would be over, it would help give myself and others the motivation to get through it.
But life is not like that and we do not know when this will come to an end, which makes dealing with it even harder. We have adjusted to all the new norms, people are exhausted, it can be from working more or just exhausted from life. When it comes down to it if we knew exactly what was going to happen from now, would we want to know? It is an extremely powerful question to try and consider. I know when I tell people I do not have any regrets in life, a lot cannot comprehend this. Yes, we learn from mistakes and it helps us grow and be the people we are today, that does not mean we regret things. Now I know I have had a pretty alright life so far and I am not saying this is something everyone should believe. It is my personal perception of my life as regret is filled with guilt and that, I do not want to have or deal with. I have made many mistakes and it has brought me to where I am today and to appreciate all that is around me. I also have many more to make.
I guess questions that go alongside if you did know would be, would you be ready and manage to see what is to come? All lives are filled with hurt and happiness. Would we stop what will happen or just delay it? I watched a movie recently called ‘About Time’. In it, the male lead is able to travel back in time in his life and potentially alter what would happen. One condition was that if you changed one thing, it altered other things from happening or changing how they happened. It also showed that you could not always stop things from happening.
However, this person could not go into the future and know how things would happen. Could knowing be a chance to reassess your life or give you the motivation to achieve more than intended or even more motivation to continue the path you are on? But then could it cause you to give up in other ways or things because later they do not seem relevant? Then by doing all this, will it change what is to happen, and then you are back to not knowing again?
I guess if it is something that you are questioning, should it be time to reassess where I am, or you are in your life right now? I spent a lot of time thinking about this question when the idea came to me about what my answer would be. For the most part, I think no. I would not like to know how things were going to go as I feel it would take away some of the mystery that is life. I feel it would add more stress to my life that I do not need. However, by thinking about this, it has given me an insight into what is important to me in life, at the moment, and in the bigger picture of my life. Which has strangely enough given me motivation for different things.
I know this is a relatively short post, but I wanted to get you thinking about if you would want to know what way your story goes, or would you want to focus on making that story now instead?
“We just need to believe in the story of our life!”
― Avijeet Das😊
