On brasse le passé et on tente de connaître ce qu'aurait pu être notre avenir si on avait pris '' les bonnes décisions '' .
C'est malsain !
Comment juger de décisions prises en connaissance de cause il y a des décennies ? Et même celles prises il n'y a que quelques années ?
La photo ci-dessus date d'avril 1979 , prise dans le stationnement d'une station de ski de la région . Et oui , ma première auto fut une Mercury Bobcat ... jaune ...
A cette époque , tous les espoirs étaient permis ! Et j'avais tout le temps du monde !
Alors quoi ?
Comment justifier toutes ces décisions que nous avons prises il y a quarante ans , il y a trois ans : le monde entier n'est que '' branle pérenne '' comme le disait Montaigne !
Croire que nous sommes maîtres de notre destin ...
Et pourtant le pire serait de cesser de rêver ! De baisser les bras et de suivre la foule qui s'avance vers le néant sans trop se poser de questions .
Il faut vivre , et vivre , c'est décider au mieux et en profiter pour tout tenter , tout voir , tout apprendre .
Prendre des décisions et les assumer .
Ne pas sombrer dans les regrets .
Sauter sur les occasions ...
We manipulate the past , trying to know what would have been our life if we had taken the '' right decisions '' .
Bad , real bad ...
How can you judge decisions taken decades ago ? Years ago ? Decisions taken with the informations you had at the time ?
The first picture is from April 1979 , taken in the parking lot of a ski resort . And , yes , I was driving a Mercury Bobcat at the time . A yellow one , my favorite color !
At the time . I had the world in front of me . All the doors were open : time was limitless and I had faith in my future .
I found climbing ... climbing that competed with my first passion , a passion that I was taking very seriously ! But with time you meet new people ...
People who change your life forever .
Sadly life is a fleeting thing and all our previous decisions , good or bad , all our hopes for the future go down the drain when someone we love dies . We are left alone , with a void in our life .
What to do besides crazy things ? Take up a new passion , well , take the newest passion more seriously . Hoping that it will fill that void ... Travel ... see new locales ... while what is left of the family unit grows up .
But we feel old and alone . After three years , old and alone ... People are saying that we are old , too old to get a job , the same job done for decades before . That we left to take care of the sick , dying , loved one ...
Then what ?
How can we justify to ourself all these decisions made forty , thirty , three , years ago ?
The world is always in an unstable state , always changing , as Montaigne was saying . To think that we are Masters of our own destiny ...
But the worst thing to do would be to stop dreaming . To stop dreaming and follow the mindless crowd that marchs on toward the Emptyness , at the end of the road , whenever it will be .
We must live ... and live means decide for the best , with the information we have now , and then try everything , see everything , learn everything !
It means taking decisions and assuming them .
It means having no regrets .
It means taking chances ...
And being zen with those !!!
And this is hard ... sometime , in the Fall ... we thing about our past decisions ...