Sigh

Feb 05, 2007 23:59

Listening to a mix I had made for a friend/former friend/complicated acquaintance some months back. Sent it out and then this person's life, which had fallen apart, reassembled. I felt like a dork for making the mix and sending it out, there were no messages in the music as one tends to inadvertently do with mixes, more a tone of sadness and a ( Read more... )

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rvandeuren February 6 2007, 08:28:47 UTC
I think you are reevaluating your life so critically right now because you know it is about to change, drastically.

The life you lived makes you who you are. It is all too easy to second-guess and go 'rounds about past decisions when you're older and can look at them in a more mature light, but remember that you made the decisions you did, when you did, for a reason; and that reason may have been / still be hidden to you. Try to remember & see what it was.

And remember that you can't go home again. It sucks, but it's a fact; I learned it the long and painful way. And the thing is even if you could, once you got there it would probably be nothing like you remembered.

Putting yourself through a lot of turmoil because of regret & 'what ifs' makes things harder for you. Try to look forward. Of course, if I could figure out a way to take that advice, I sure as hell would.

There is a quote in the Bob Dylan documentary No Direction Home where, I think it's D.A. Pennebaker, says of Bob, "One of the things he's good at is getting used ( ... )

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