Looking forward, the future is hazy, unclear
While rear vision is always perfectly clear
What challenges will be headed our way in the future
We can perhaps apprehend but can never be certain off
Looking back we know with clarity where we went wrong
At what point we should have taken a different route
Or made a decision that would have altered everything
But we live in the moment, neither past nor the future
What happens now, is instantaneous, reactive
So we need our wits about us to do what is required
And it is a wise person who accepts that fact, pragmatically!

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Thanks a lot Carol.
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Yes, well said Sadje, a wise person indeed that lives accepting the present, and who clings neither to the past, nor future, with a sober assessment of life’s vicissitudes.
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Being practical is very important.
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Yes indeed. It is the bedrock of good common sense too, I daresay.
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Yeah it’s true sadje.
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Welcome Sadje
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All we have is the present, we can’t change the past or predict the future with any certainty, so we need to learn how to live with the decisions that we have made.
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Exactly so Jim. Make the decision with a clear mind and then donβt regret them. Thanks
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The only thing we have to remember is to learn from mistakes of the past.. the future may hold our dreams but we cant arrive there with our head lost in the clouds… the here and now keeps us grounded. Great poem Sadje!
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Youβre so right that we need to B learn our lessons from the past mistakes. Thanks a lot Leigha
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You’re welcome.
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βBut we live in the moment, neither past nor the future
What happens now, is instantaneous, reactiveβ Indeed, and agreed. Love this one, Sadje.
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Thank you so much Jeff.
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100% heres to living in moment in 2022, and using the past as the lessons to handle the future.
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Thanks a lot. All the best
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Reblogged this on The Reluctant Poet.
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There are some folks I think who honestly don’t realize when they have made an error in judgement.
It used to be said in the 1960’s that it was “The ME Generation” –
I think with the advances in technology there is to much sharing of Gen X or Millenials.
While away everything was IPads, computerized keys, and billing etc. And well SmartPhones. Several times we had to ask for ‘paper menus’ – I think it is with some difficulty that some of us older folks live in this ‘new century’.
We can only hope that some of the ‘old values’ are still taught and are acceptable, and even honored.
Cheers, Jules
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Yes, the world of technology is moving at a fast pace. We have difficulty catching up with it.
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I’m still enjoying reading ‘real books’ π
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Ebooks are real too just less bulky.
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Yes, that is true. If I perhaps just really knew how to opperate the one I own π
Maybe the newer versions are more adapted to human intuitiveness? Or perhaps I am just a little bit technophobic π
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Once you start using kindle, it will become second nature
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Maybe π
Thanks.
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Youβre welcome
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