Today’s good thought comes from this beautiful piece of Typewriter Poetry written by Amanda Torroni. Stick her name into Google for more amazing pieces!
We forget to focus on what we are not sometimes, who we don’t want to be. Or maybe we know it, we just don’t always say it, or spend too much time thinking about it. I think there are some things I could never let myself become. I could never be fake and I could never be a hypocrite. These are the two things I cannot stand, and that I have to distance myself from a lot. There are other things too; I don’t want to be afraid, or dependent on someone else. But I think my biggest fear is to become someone who is filled with regret, who reaches the end of her time and looks back on her life and thinks of so much more she wanted to do, and could have done.
Every word of this poem is true. I’ve given up on trying to think too hard about what I want to do with myself, and what career I want to follow. Not knowing these things quite honestly scared the shit out of me. But I realise now that not only is it okay to not know, I don’t actually need to know, not right now. Of course there are some things I do know, things I desperately want to do. My bucket list so to speak. And they are things I am determined to make happen, however long it takes. But everything else doesn’t matter. We’ve got to take each moment as they come, and to allow our journeys to unwind as we walk. To pick up the clues and the self-realisations on the way, so that we can piece them together when the time is right. As long as you are doing everything in your power to make the most of each and every opportunity, as long as you aren’t sitting back and wondering when you’ll get a chance but instead going out there and making them, then all of that adds up to regret-free living. And that’s all I want. So I can get to the end of my time and sit back smiling at myself, filled with all the knowledge I don’t quite have yet, and I can whisper to myself, ‘you did alright H. You did alright.’
See you tomorrow! ❤
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