Missed Opportunities, The True Miracle
Remorse, they say, for the opportunities lost to you, for they’ll never be afforded to you again. Believing their fatalistic and narrow-minded view, remorse you do. There’s so many opportunities in a persons life they pass up because they cannot appreciate the beautiful fragility of that moment which will haunt them. This is a lesson that can only be learned the hard way. Until you break free from a finite mind state, I’d imagine such opportunities would continue to haunt you.
On the same side of that token, you cannot spend your life chasing down opportunities trying to make them right. This does not mean that it shouldn’t be done however, as moderation is, as always, the key.
Opportunities drive stories. We forget that, like the characters in a novel, we are living a story every day. Each day its own novel of thoughts, emotions, sights, smells, and experiences. Each week a compendium of its constituent days, and the over-arching story they form. Each month the anthology of its weeks. Each year an archive of the months, and each lifetime a library of stories that make up who you are as a person. We are shaped by our experiences, just as our decisions shape the course of our life. In this same vein, one can say the opportunities afforded a person also shape your life, as the choices made in each instance can forever alter your timeline.
This is why opportunities are so precious. This is why we value them as we do. This is why the fatalistic view of the world came to be; the rare circumstance that combine in this chaotic world to bring about an event that corroborates with our situation and our tastes, and preferences, and ideals. This is why opportunities lost can cause so much misery; why remorse can ruin a life, just as much as a single opportunity could change a life for the better.
Opportunities, even the possibility of, can drive us to great lengths. The beauty of life is that for every missed opportunity, a new opportunity takes its place. A missed opportunity can be like a miracle though, in the end it forces you to grow. It challenges you to become better, and be prepared for the next opportunity.
