Sigh
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
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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 to the way things are; he understands that time changes everything."
That's a fuckin' good way to deal.
Of course, it is likely easier to do when you're Bob Dylan :p
Take care & oh yeah- I get the line...
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