No Do-Overs

Many of us have said at one time or another, “If I could go back and do it over again I would have… [or] I would not have…” Have you ever thought about the impact one change in your past would make in your life today and the lives of others? But life is not a movie where we step back in time and make those changes. We are greatly who we are from every past experience we have had. We stand in the present with no control over that past.

Heraclitus (c. 500B.C.) was a Greek philosopher from Ephesus. In contemplating life he profoundly said, “You cannot step into the same river twice, for fresh waters are ever flowing in upon you.” It is that fresh water that should concern us. As noted, we have no control over the past but we have a great deal of control over our present and can, through our present actions, create a future that will hold little regret.