Your past happened, now onto the Future!

(My Original Blog Post: http://ping.fm/FVGTW)
It's interesting if we all thing back to when we were 5 years old, we had big dreams, to be an astronaut, to be a rockstar, to be famous, to do the unlimited.  Depending on your childhood life was pretty easy for most of us, we had no pain, no responsibilities, we were free, happy, most of all curious about the world.  Because of this we imagined the impossible, we asked a lot of questions, why was at the beginning of all of our questions. We didn't yet know what pain was.  We had not yet been let down, we did not know who we were, we were still discovering ourselves at every moment.  Happy curiousity was our default emotion, we never watched the news, it wasn't a driver of our life.  We did what we wanted to do, and that's how it was going to be.  Somewhere along the way we all lost those traits.  It's known we once had them, and who's to say they aren't buried deep inside us still somewhere.   If we understand that our emotions trigger positve and negative anchors within us, and bring them back to the surface from the past, why not try to take one of the most common anchors, songs and find a song that was inspiring or fun from when you were about 5 years old that you oftened listened to.   This song should bring back who you were and what you thought of when you were 5 years old.   There is never ever a reason to stop dreaming, or to stop being curious.  Why did we stop asking so many questions, do we know all of the answers now?   We need to stop thinking about what we can't do, and think of what we can do.  Life isn't a scrimmage or a practice, it's the actual real game life, there are no do overs.  Many of us think we regret trying and failing, but compared side by side with never trying and having no result, I think we would rather have a result.  We all regret more so things that we never tried because it leaves us with what if.  We need to listen to songs from when we were 5, and believe again in the unlimited, the impossible because afterall that's when we solely were the only ones that determined what we could have, it can only be explained that others along the way had to have got us off of this idea or path because we had it right from the beginning.   When we were just kids in the driveway, our time was spent hours and hours imagining the crowd and taking the winning shot on the basketball hoop with seconds remaining.  We took the time to feel the crowd, the emotions, the rush.  We saw our friends and loved ones around us watching us go for the winning shot, being a winner, being the hero, we imagined being the leader and the one that wins the championship.  Not one of us every imagined being the guy on the bench that kept it warm for others.  None of us imagined heckling others.  None of us imagined only playing for a few minutes because our feet hurt.  None of us imagined passing the responsibility to others.   We imagined greatness, demanded it of ourselves, invisioned the last few seconds with us being the reason for victory, and if we missed that shot in the driveway that day, you better believe we felt incomplete and before you could say a negative thing, we were counting down again.  We do have it in us, we know that because we remember it, sometimes it's easier to forget.  When did we all decide to be benchwarmers and spectators, and quit being the one who led the team down the court, and take on the pressure for that winning shot, we all changed along the way, and when we admit that to ourselves, that's when we will make the first step in getting that back!

 

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