Same choices?
- By: Qwaider
- On:Tuesday, February 19, 2008 12:26:08 AM
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I look back upon so many choices I've taken in my life and sometimes I wonder if I would go back in time, knowing what I know now. Would I make those same choices again!?
I wouldn't make many of them. But why do people insist on repeating the the same mistakes over and over!?
Some people I guess never learn!
But is that broad statement true? Or is it that people sometimes battle with their hopes and frustrations. Maybe it's fate the they continuously believe is putting them back together again
If you had a very rough relationship with a man, or a woman, would you consider getting closer to them? Wasn't it enough that you tried, and failed and now you're trying again?! Why the wasted energy?
An Arabic saying "ما محبّة الا من بعد عداوة" (You only like people after you had hated them) pops to my mind at this point. I guess the Arabic saying is missing a second part, "و ما عداوة الا من بعد محبة" (And there is no hatred except after you had liked the people). Which is so true, since many of the people we can't stand, were possibly once, good friends!
But that's not a rule
I think there's a lot of fish in the sea, and life is too short to waste on the wrong person ... what do you think?!
Memories....
You have a lot to learn.
When you're young, it's easy to say, I don't want this, I don't want that, don't waste your life with the wrong person.
First, you don't KNOW if the person is the WRONG PERSON and by the time you know it would be already too late. Because it's too late, even if you go back in time you will make the same choice
I know you who you mean by this, and I'm not happy with what you said!
Secondly, We should try to be nice to all & beautify the world as much as we can.. But that person you're talking about (who gave us the hard time), would we want to get commited to? I don't think so.. Maybe have around, if we can, & if it won't negatively affect us.. But try to get married to for instance? Umm, I don't think so..
Personally, If I ever ge married, I don't want to shape the person I'm getting married to.. I'd want to marry him for who he is & not who I want him to be.. Plus, we can't have control over owr own hearts, will we be in charge of others' & direct them to where is right? Umm, again, I don't think so..
respectfully,
We learn as we go through life, we grow, isn’t that part of maturity after all, as they say “kol wa7ad bet3allam mn keeso”
So don’t regret ANYTHING you did in the past, no matter what, as bad as it was, you learned from it, as for the people who makes the same mistake over and over, they are either crazy, or simply didn’t learn their lesson :) .. they will someday, just give them some time.
P.S: it’s never too late :)
By the way, I tagged you! Check out my blog for more info. :)
if you have a relationship of any kind with someone, and it didn't workout, thats because you and Him/her did things. that make the relationship didn't work...
NOW. if we roll back in time, and you knew that relationship won't work. you won't get in it. ( i think thats wrong)
you will get into it, and change your/his/her behavior that force that relationship to end...
it is all about How and why, did that. not the choice it self, but the acts we responded in to that choice...
فما قولكم دام فضلكم
I am sorry too to read what AH said; but that should never stop someone as blunt as you to speak their minds (even if people take it personally). Keep writing
Secondly,
Though I have made zillions of mistakes in my life; I wouldn't take them back, and if I went back in time; I would re-do everything all over again; because without these mistakes I wouldn't have become the person I am today. I see it in two different ways and in two different time zones; the past & the future: 1) turning back in time and re-do mistakes (that I would do. 2) Re-do the same mistakes in the future (that I wouldn't do). So if I would go back in time and deal with a person that caused my pain; I would still deal with them till they hurt me once; but that doesn't mean that I will give them a second chance now or in the future; no matter what they say….cause the damage has been done. We are all entitled to do mistakes; but we have to learn from them so that we never make them again. We all should be proud of our past experiences because they led us to become the people we are today…everything happens for a reason….but as they say "Fool me once; shame on you. Fool me twice; shame on me". That been said, I hope that I was able to get my message through without much confusion.
Paulo Coelho
to them they r simply choices made by them...and if i were to relive my life again, i would still live it the way i did...nothing to be changed... i am happy with choices i made and i dnot consider them mistakes, though i learn from them...but if we would live our lives mistake-proof...then it would be dull like hell!!!sah???
i wonder how it feels like if i look back on time and find nothing to wonder "what if...."!!! and that is our fuel in life, dear...
peace....
To be the person that you are now with all the knowledge ,wisdom and experience u have , u first need to experience the exact opposite of these things! U need to goof up every once in a while so that u can know for sure these things are not "you" and learn your lesson!
So if u came back with that knowledge and decided u are gonna make use of to avoid ur old mistakes , u might end up doing the exact same mistakes because u label them as wrong or bad based on sth u were told and taught not on an experience that caused u a lot when it happened!
It is like a child being told fire is bad and it will burn his fingers , this child knows its bad yet can't resist the temptation of feeling it!
Going off topic as usual and talking as if I were alive for centuries!
As to the wrong person part I think that fishing might be good but ,as u said t,he sea is full of fish and life is short so yyy on earth spend it on looking for the "right" one? We can't ask god to tailor-make some one for us ! I mean we needn't put a list and check it , the right one just comes , no fishing needed!!
Again acting as the all experienced , did it all girl :P
Have a nice day ;)
I guess it depends on the people, right? Some mistakes people wouldn't mind repeating I guess!
Simply Me,
You're right, every case is different.
I like the hopeful twist you have on the issue. It's nice to think about it like that!
Sara
AH is a good friend of mine, I don't think he means what he said in a bad way, "mish bainna" :)
Maybe it was, at some point, our own mistake. Maybe going back would help us fix these mistakes and be with that person. I think Dima nailed it when she said every case is different. People appear to "like" some of the mistakes they have made. For example, at the time, people didn't want to have a kid, and 10 years later, if they go back in time, they would gladly do that mistake again because the love their kid
Maioush
I agree with you, we are who we are because of the mistakes we went through, the trials we passed. Going back in time might be a good thing but why do the same thing all over again? It's not a smart way to do things. Especially if you know the outcome. Maybe you'll make better choices going back in time and using your new found knowledge to make your -would be- future even better than your current present
Lulu
I don't disagree with either one of you. I just think on round two. I expect to do better :)
(and I don't like Tags that much :( so please forgive me. I appreciate the gesture, but please pardon me)
KJ
True, finding out what is wrong for you, is half way through
الـ[مش]ــعبيط
I think there are two ways to look at it.
First one, is the ability to go back, empowered with the knowledge and experience and evade all the mistakes. Which in my humble opinion will lead to a very sterile experience.
Option two is to go back, enjoy making the mistakes KNOWING the outcome! We can disagree all we like but making mistakes is ALWAYS more fun than doing the right thing. So we can get to enjoy them knowing the end result
But there are many things that we blame ourselves for, I guess we could try to make them better and see how they work out. They might still fail anyway! OR we might live to regret "fixing" it
Firecracker
AH is a good friend of mine, bimoon. He didn't mean that in an insulting way
But I will say this (even if he gets upset) I think he's too sensitive because he feels there is a resemblance to what I'm writing here, and what he is going through. It made him feel that it was directed at him personally. But it's not
I would say we all need to be proud of our past experiences, mainly because some we learned from, and they were ugly.
Did you notice that your decision not to allow people to fool you again is based on your past experiences? You will not repeat the mistake again in the future
Diana
Nicely put
Afaf
Exactly afaf, I call them choices, not mistakes. And although their results might have not been plausible at times, it was a choice and people can live with that.
Lost within
You don't need to get burned to understand that fire will burn you. Many of us learn through other people's experience. So there isn't -really- a need to fall in the same mistake over and over :) There's nothing that's going to change there.
I'm not sure the "right one" is that easy to find. But I do believe that it can be MADE!
yeah, cause if he really meant it, he will need to take a cab from the airport!:) Hear that AH!?
Prankster
You're very wise for adopting the policy "learn from the mistakes of others". But I have to admit, it does take part of the joy of making the mistake yourself :)