Past, Present, and Future

"The reason people find it so hard to be happy is that they always see the past better than it was, the present worse than it is, and the future less resolved than it will be" -Marcel Pagnol

I reminisce of the many memories which make up my past - The things I've done and the people I've known, and I see them through rose-colored glasses - everything seems better than it may actually have been.

Yet in our present, those same rose-colored glasses are nowhere to be seen. Everything is always complex, always difficult, always uncertain. It makes us scream, makes us hide from others, and within ourselves. It halts our decisions and freezes our thoughts because we are too scared to choose a path that may lead us down the wrong road, away from comfortable surroundings, away from comforting arms, away from what seems to bring us peace.

But in the end, when all is said and done, when we can no longer hide from ourselves, from others, and most definitely not from Time, we all must try and make those choices that bring us closer to happiness, and farther away from sadness. The future is uncertain, unknowable, but the choices we make today, in the present, can help us find a bit of happiness and eventually lead us to more.

It is easy to cling onto past feelings of happiness and joy, hold onto someone who used to treat us with love and respect. It is also easy to confuse those memories, those "someones" and see them in the present as they once were in our past. We hold on to how they used to be, never seeing them for how they are now.

It is harder still to open our own eyes, to let the truth that we seem to want to deny inside our heart, but eventually, we all must do so. To continue to deny the truth will only bring more pain, more confusion, and more uncertainty.

"Take it as it comes" - *live*, truly live in the present, don't reside here waiting for the future, hoping it will be better than now. Make your choices, abide by them, have faith in them, and hope...know...that those choices will lead you down the road you are meant to travel.