thinking out loud

pacifier

limited in time and space
each event leaves others erased
all the words that came and passed
lost now to a different path
never to impart their knowledge
never to share their view
never to impact or empower
lost now, all the changes due

Life is a choose a path book
but you can't go to the start and try again
each option chosen changes everything
so the words they've faded
never to return again
I've chosen other things
Wonder now where I'm heading
and where I could have been

madjack

I think you can never look back, I was taught that the pass is seen different no matter how things really were. The future is uncertain for all of us, so as the song says its much better to live in the present tense.

justam

I think that that the past does always look different. And, we can make the assumption that we're seeing it more clearly later, and yet, sometimes I think we're just filtering it through another curtained emotional window.

When we're experiencing something, the emotions can completely blinding and later, our memory of the emotions can still be blocking the truth in some way or another. I think the best way to make sense of the past is to discuss it with someone else who was there.

justam

I really hate the fact that I can't edit my messy typing in this forum!!!

pacifier

Hmmm, interesting. This wasn't really meant to be a poem about the past or in any way negative. I was just thinking how even the most simplest of choices can take your life in a whole new direction yet sometimes even the biggest choices would probably have led you to the same place eventually, like the endings in a choose-a-path book, sometimes you make a choice and end up somewhere else or sometimes you make a whole dfferent story but you have the same ending.

I'm actually completely happy with where I am in life and was thinking how easy it would have been to end up somewhere else with just a few different choices. I think if I followed my instincts that many paths would have led me here, but there have been many times, especially when I become impatient with life, that I could have made choices that would have led me to places that I would definitely regret.

Made me think how easy it is for people to get themselves in situations they wish they were never in and how just about everyone could get themselves out of their current situation if they had just made different choices somewhere along the line.

depopulationINC

interesting read...great comments!