Here is a quote from a writer who lived on the outside of the social scene. An eccentric who’s writings were not respected while alive but has influenced contemporary writers of this and the last century. Who said this…
“Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.” – Soren Kierkegaard
I guess another way of saying this is “hindsight is 20/20” or “if only I had known___”. The point is sometimes we don’t know WHY things happen but in time the answers are revealed to us. In the meantime…since we have no choice but to live forwards might as well take a leap….
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Deanne Kinney
June 18, 2013 at 7:00 amBelieve it or not, there are people out there that think they can save your doomed marriage from its inevitable divorce-y end. OK, they don’t ACTUALLY think that, but they think they can convince you of it and/or they want to sell you something. The people trying to sell you something are usually pastors, but not the real kind, the kind that appear on TV and try to sell you books. These TV pastors would be happy to sell you a book entitled something like ” HOW TO SAVE YOUR MARRIAGE FROM THE BRINK OF DIVORCE BY FORCING THE DEVIL OUT OF YOUR RELATIONSHIP AND ACCEPTING GOD’S LOVE” (note: We have no idea if this is a real book. But if it is, we think it’s stupid. To be safe, don’t buy any books that we haven’t written.) Other non-pastor people might write articles about saving your marriage, for seemingly no other reason than to make you feel like a failure. These people aren’t doing it for money, just for the satisfaction of feeling superior to you. Maybe one of these people *believes* she’s saved her own marriage from the brink of divorce, but what she doesn’t know is that the only reason her husband is acting happier now is that he has a secret 25 year old girlfriend. Here’s the real deal, ladies and gentlemen: you can’t save your marriage from the brink of divorce. You CAN’T! If your marriage is already on the brink of divorce, it’s because someone (either you or your spouse) no longer cares. Maybe you or your spouse NEVER cared. Maybe you’ve both been miserable the whole time. Maybe you or your spouse fell in love with someone else. Or one of you just got bored and wants to start over. That’s ok. It happens. But don’t blame yourself. That isn’t going to help ANYONE.
lisa
June 18, 2013 at 3:19 pmThanks for sharing, Deanne. People will appreciate your opinion.
ralph lauren pas cher
June 15, 2013 at 1:43 pmNice…thanks for this.
My Inner Chick
May 23, 2013 at 7:09 pmI love that quote. I only wish I could understand life as it happens rather than looking backwards. You know what I mean?
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lisa
May 23, 2013 at 9:14 pmI know exactly what you mean, Kim. It’s the old ‘everything happens for a reason’ adage and that it will be explained in time. But I also think things just happen randomly as well and maybe we never come to an understanding. I waffle…Thanks for stopping by 🙂
Beverly Diehl
May 22, 2013 at 8:48 pmSecond-guessing our past decisions isn’t effective anyway. I continually reflect on the film Sliding Doors (Gwyneth Paltrow) where it seems that one path/split second took her to a better life, and the other to a worse one – but following it through to the end, it did not turn out the way we’d have thought.
lisa
May 22, 2013 at 9:05 pmI agree Beverly. It’s always best to ‘live forward’! Sliding Doors, yes that’s a great example! Thanks for sharing your thoughts.