IF
I don't quite know how two letters can say so much. If is the longest two letter word in the english language because it changes everything.One word can create hope, fear, enlightenment, anxiety... every emotion in the english language can be created by this one word.
Betsy ten boom said ' there are no ifs in God's kingdom.'
but in this messy world can we really believe that? if we have free will surely there are so many ways life can go. But what actually happens that is up to us, but once something is done its done do we really believe is an alternative. God is all knowing all powerful but we do get choice. He just knows what we will choose.
We all do it though, get hung up on the alternative life plan. The one that never happened, the guy we never kissed the path not taken. Is If our way of saying that we are unhappy with our current circumstances or that we are so aware of the failiblity of our decisions.
I don't think there is a place for us to wallow in the might have been in the coulda woulda shoulda that life throws at us because it stops us from thinking of the now and living in the moment. we are not those people. We make the choices we make with what we know being who we are. we have to live with our choices, whatever they are good or bad.
If you read too much sci fi and watch too much Fringe then the idea of a parallel universe is appealing the one where Hitler won the war or you took the train. but reality is what is here and now (for the benefit of Dotterelly et al) what you percieve is by definition your reality ( with or without unicorns).
So its time to give up IF to consign the coulda woulda shoulda to writers who write fiction, if has no place in our reality because it distracts us from the now.
We all do it though, get hung up on the alternative life plan. The one that never happened, the guy we never kissed the path not taken. Is If our way of saying that we are unhappy with our current circumstances or that we are so aware of the failiblity of our decisions.
I don't think there is a place for us to wallow in the might have been in the coulda woulda shoulda that life throws at us because it stops us from thinking of the now and living in the moment. we are not those people. We make the choices we make with what we know being who we are. we have to live with our choices, whatever they are good or bad.
If you read too much sci fi and watch too much Fringe then the idea of a parallel universe is appealing the one where Hitler won the war or you took the train. but reality is what is here and now (for the benefit of Dotterelly et al) what you percieve is by definition your reality ( with or without unicorns).
So its time to give up IF to consign the coulda woulda shoulda to writers who write fiction, if has no place in our reality because it distracts us from the now.
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