The Right To Write

The longer we live the more we will encounter situations and circumstances that we would prefer to avoid.

There are roads to be travelled, decisions to be made and relationships to be encountered. No man is an island and, try as some of us might, it’s not possible to live in a vacuum.

Sooner or later we face choices and the choices we make are based on the knowledge and experience we have.

What we did back then may not be what we will do now just as what we thought back then may not be what we think now.

We change as we grow and we grow as we change.

Too often, however, we can become entangled in the consequences of the decisions we made at an earlier time in our lives. We have to work at becoming disentangled. The good news is that it is possible.

It’s when entanglement becomes entrapment that we have a real problem.

If we are not vigilent we can spend unnecessary and unproductive time looking over our shoulders at what was, failing to appreciate what is.

Our emotional and psychological development can stall or, at the very least, be hampered if we fail to come to terms with that which happened at another time and place.

The present may be influenced by the past but the past need not dictate the present.

The past is a story already written and changes to it are impossible.

But each new day offers a new page and we have the opportunity, the privilege and the challenge of writing a new chapter.

The story is ours and the time is now.