Hindsight is 20/20

A post by a friend. Sometimes others just say it better. Click on the title for a link to her website.

Why is it - that when life tries to tell us something, we don't listen... Day to day provides wonderful opportunities and yet it's chance - the 'stupid' coincidences of life that cause us to make irrational decisions we can pretend to feel good about.

Why listen to something that makes no sense? And why does it feel so empowering to follow something that makes no sense? Is it just the desire to want what we can't have? What about learning to be happy for the present moment? Why do we never feel the right feelings at the right time? Or hear the birds until after they've flown away? Why do we always seek to rebel what's right for us? And run from the things we know are good and comfortable and right...

Do you follow your gut?
Do you follow your heart?
Do you follow your brain?

And if you should be so lucky to find they all align at some point, will the opportunity be missed? Is it already too far gone? Has the damage already been done? 'They say' "it's never too late..." but why is it, than when you realize what you want - it appears too late - the circumstances that were in your control are suddenly out of reach.

I have this horrible habit to resist the thing I actually desire.
I seek patience and yet I'm growing impatient with myself.
Everything I pushed away, everything I rebelled, is everything I want.

And everything I thought I wanted is changing.