Looking back

Looking back, whether it is on a period in our lives, on certain events that have happened, or rather on our lives in general usually bring us two kinds of reactions. On one hand it is easy to find ourselves dropping into a mode of ‘would have, could have, should have’… While on the other hand the distance that time itself gives us also creates clarity. Details that were hard to distinguish while events were still unfolding, now are absolutely clear; and while as things were happening there didn’t seem to be any rhyme nor reason to how things came together ~ or failed to come together ~ suddenly are seen with the proverbial 20/20-hindsight. A certain brand of crystal clarity that can put all things in a perspective in a way we were unable to reach before…

And while it we should be careful not to start beating ourselves up over the things that could have been done differently, things we should have seen as they happened, and so on, it is a good idea to look back at our lives every so often.
To gain clarity and new perspectives. And to see ~ and acknowledge to ourselves ~ all the things we have done, the details we did see; and how, overall, we have done a stellar job!

Even if we come to the conclusion as we are looking back that our thoughts and actions left quite a bit to be desired, the fact that we take time to honestly look at it and allowing ourselves to come to that conclusion means that we have learned and grown from whatever has occurred in ways that we never thought possible!

After all, if we take the spiritual perspectives that everything that happens in our lives happens for a reason, and that therefore we create those things in our lives that can help us gain the wisdom from ‘lessons learned’, (spiritual) growth, and the greatest personal unfoldment we can achieve ~ then it is not about whether something turned out the way we envisioned it, the way we desired it to go, or even the ‘best way’ whatever that might have been.
It is all about what it has brought us in experience, in wisdom.
It is all about the things we have discovered about ourselves; some of which we may want to change, while others may surprise us as we never thought we had it in ourselves.

Either way, the realization of new aspects of ourselves is a tremendously valuable gift.
And looking back permits us to see them with the crystal clear vision of 20/20 sight!
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