. I love looking back on memories and remembering what sweet simple times they were. The downside is always that those memories are never as perfect as you remember them. At least for me that is true. I always think and remember "oh, how perfect it was to be 16" psh, yeah right! i was a mountain of emotion and attitudes. Even when I went to college life I took life for granted and kept searching for my future to find me. Now that its here, I spend time in the past. Backwards thinking! I need to take my thought captive and be in the present. One of my favorite quotes is ::

"Sometimes without conscience realization, our thoughts, our faith, our interests are entered into the past. We talk about other times, other places, other persons, and lose our living hold on the present. Sometimes we think if we could just go back in time we would be happy. But anyone who attempts to re-enter the past is sure to be disappointed. Anyone who has ever revisited the place of his birth after years of absence is shocked by the differences between the way the place actually is, and the way he has remembered it. He may walk along old familiar streets and roads, but he is a stranger in a strange land. He has thought of this place as home, but finds he is no longer here even in spirit. He has gone on to a new and different life, and in thinking longingly of the past, he has been giving thought and interest to something that no longer really exists. This being true of the physical self, how much more true it is of the spiritual self. "




I can't get over these words and how they have played a piece in my life.
pretty proud this is post #2 and it hasn't been 6 months since the last one! :-P I miss facebook. darnit.