Changing Everything
Jane Hirshfield
I was walking again
in the woods,
a yellow light
was sifting all I saw.
Willfully,
with a cold heart,
I took a stick,
lifted it to the opposite side
of the path.
There, I said to myself,
that’s done now.
Brushing one hand against the other,
to clean them
of the tiny fragments of bark.
Throughout life, you will find yourself looking over your shoulder at the path you’ve already traveled. But, what good does this really do? You’re not going that way. So, make the decision to look back one final time and say that’s done now. Then turn around and face forward in the direction you have yet to go in. Choose instead to look forward onto the uncharted waters you have yet to explore. . .because it is what lies ahead of you that truly matters.
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Here’s my sign. I asked and now received. Thank you my dear friend! The past is for learning experience only-time to forge ahead ?
Thanks for sharing!!!