"JUST CHOOSE"

​I love to read both fiction and non-fiction. One recent fiction book, The Midnight Librarian by Matt Haig, struck me boldly as a wisdom practice. The practice is to use the power of your mind to imagine your future self if you’d only made the choices you thought were better than the ones you made.

I was so inspired I told my friends to read the book. I’ve often thought the “what if” game was useless, but on the other hand, maybe it’s revealing. My friends had a hard time with the first few chapters. It starts with sadness and near death. It was hard for me too, but I kept reading. It was real and relevant since we commonly play the idealized game, if only I would have made a different choice. In this book, the protagonist gets to live out the if only scenarios until coming to the realization that … OK, read the book … no spoiler alert here.

But the practice I learned is to stop pretending I could have made different choices from the ones I made. I experienced a profound acceptance instead of regret. Regrets focus on the past. And, as each year passes, there’s more past to review until it can overshadow the here and now!

Where can you stop pretending that you could have made different choices and come to this moment to embrace who you are today? Let me know what you learn.

May you be fulfilled in who you are now.