“To regret one's own experiences is to arrest one's own development. To deny one's own experiences is to put a lie into the lips of one's life. It is no less than a denial of the soul.” (Oscar Wilde)
Up until now, I’ve always said that I have no regrets in life. I always said that my experiences were what shaped me into who I am. Although I still believe that, I have known my first real feelings of regret. I have asked myself countless ‘what if’ questions and wondered how things could have been different, better. After considering the ‘what if’ questions, they seemed to me, as regret. I regret the way things happened thus needing to ask a ‘what if’. Depending on the context I suppose the regret, the ‘what ifs’, can either be a time for change in perspective, a time for learning and growth, a time of stagnation, or a time of cynicism.
“What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.” (Oscar Wilde)
I’m not saying that I’ve become a cynic; I’m only trying to gain some perspective.
“A man is not old until his regrets take the place of his dreams.” (Proverb)
Although I often feel old, I am attempting to not actually become old. At least not yet. I am trying hard to keep my dreams in tact while I try this whole different perspective thing. I am scared of my regrets replacing the things I long for, the things I hope for. I have an entire lifetime before me and I want to live it.
“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.” (Oscar Wilde)
In living and not merely existing, I am aware that ‘the truth is rarely pure and never simple.’ (Oscar Wilde) Truth, whatever that may actually be, is a whole other boat to possibly sail later. For now, I will choose to believe that ‘we are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.’ (Oscar Wilde) I love stargazing, so I think that’s a good sign.
Ps. I really adore Oscar Wilde.
“To regret one's own experiences is to arrest one's own development. To deny one's own experiences is to put a lie into the lips of one's life. It is no less than a denial of the soul.” (Oscar Wilde)
Up until now, I’ve always said that I have no regrets in life. I always said that my experiences were what shaped me into who I am. Although I still believe that, I have known my first real feelings of regret. I have asked myself countless ‘what if’ questions and wondered how things could have been different, better. After considering the ‘what if’ questions, they seemed to me, as regret. I regret the way things happened thus needing to ask a ‘what if’. Depending on the context I suppose the regret, the ‘what ifs’, can either be a time for change in perspective, a time for learning and growth, a time of stagnation, or a time of cynicism.
“What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.” (Oscar Wilde)
I’m not saying that I’ve become a cynic; I’m only trying to gain some perspective.
“A man is not old until his regrets take the place of his dreams.” (Proverb)
Although I often feel old, I am attempting to not actually become old. At least not yet. I am trying hard to keep my dreams in tact while I try this whole different perspective thing. I am scared of my regrets replacing the things I long for, the things I hope for. I have an entire lifetime before me and I want to live it.
“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.” (Oscar Wilde)
In living and not merely existing, I am aware that ‘the truth is rarely pure and never simple.’ (Oscar Wilde) Truth, whatever that may actually be, is a whole other boat to possibly sail later. For now, I will choose to believe that ‘we are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.’ (Oscar Wilde) I love stargazing, so I think that’s a good sign.
Ps. I really adore Oscar Wilde.
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