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I just read the following from an interview with Betty White: “I do love to laugh. It sure beats the alternative,” she said. [When she hears someone say], “You know what I hate?” her reaction, thought if not uttered, is: “No, I really don’t know what you hate, and I really don’t care.” Then she adds,
Quote:“You concentrate on those things and you miss a lot of the good stuff that goes by.”
And there’s another key bit of White wisdom about life, this a gift from her mother, Tess. She said,
Quote:“Don’t look back and think that was so great. Realize it at the time.”
Old-Timer wrote:“Don’t look back and think that was so great. Realize it at the time.”
That sounds very Eckhart Tolle-ish. I really like that healthy line of thinking. In the NOW we should recognize what is great.I notice this at work too…if I get distracted thinking about what I did yesterday, or how many things I need to do for tomorrow…I am wasting that brain power. I could be putting that energy into doing things now and enjoying the present.
Quote:“He who fights too long against dragons becomes a dragon himself; and if you gaze too long into the abyss, the abyss will gaze into you.” – Nietzsche
Now I don’t agree with everything Nietzsche said, but this is certainly true. If you concentrate too much on darkness, it can grow within you, and if you fight an enemy – real or abstract – too often and too long, you can gain those faults. We see this in many people, fundamentalists, politicians etc, and on a smaller scale it can happen in our lives.
Quote:“Don’t look back and think that was so great. Realize it at the time.”
This reminds me of the saying “You have a great future behind you.” I can’t totally agree with these sentiments though, sometimes time is the only thing which teaches us. We can’t always see things as they are, until we leave them.
Quote:sometimes time is the only thing which teaches us. We can’t always see things as they are, until we leave them.
I agree. The key, imo, is to learn how to make time the teacher “sometimes” rather than always.
It’s like the line from the ?Joni Mitchell song “don’t it always seem to be that you don’t know what you’ve lost til it’s gone…”. The choice is whether to make the regrets like the chains on Marley’s ghost or to just get out of bed and try again. Half the battle is just showing up. Easy to pontificate about and not so easy to do but there you are.
Quote:The key, imo, is to learn how to make time the teacher “sometimes” rather than always.
That’s true, but easier said than done. Falling in love, for example, is rarely a first sight thing. It can be so gradual that it can take you by surprise.
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