Mr. Aries’s BodyBlog

It’s hard to look forward to anything, if all you do is look back.

That’s the lesson I’m finally learning. Took me a few years, or 27. I used to stay up at night and think back to some of the old forks in the road, times when I had to make a choice. It’s easy to sit around and think, "What if I chose the other path?". Hindsight is 20/20, afterall, and maybe life would be a bit easier now had I gone the other route.

Now I know: it wouldn’t have been better, because that life wouldn’t be mine. I might not have made the right choice, but each and every time, I did make the "right choice for me". Those choices are the reasons why I’m alive and kicking, and blessed. Those choices gave me the fighting chance I have. Regretting those decisions would be like turning my back on the present.. The "present", what a wonderful word. It’s called the present because that’s exactly what it is; a present.

Some people think they can’t live without some things; and others think they can’t live with some things (or themselves). Here’s what I know: you’d be surprised what you can live without; you’d be surprised what you can live with.

Looking back won’t give me the reason why I am here; and I’m clearly here for a reason. I intend to find out my purpose in life, and the only way to do that is to brave the future. 

Tomorrow is chest/legs day. It’ll be better than the last one. Why? because it’s the next one… Simple.