you cannot turn back the time to correct your mistakes; agree?
By missjahn
@missjahn (4574)
Philippines
August 20, 2012 2:20am CST
no one is perfect. that is why it is unavoidable that human cannot commit mistakes to whatever extent it should be; if the mistakes gave you the most shameful thing ever happened in your life or if the effect of it gave you the slightest scratch in your dignity and such. so i can say, you cannot switch the time to get there in your past life, to correct or to straightened out your mistakes. or no such thing like time machine to ride back to the time where you want to erase happenings that gave stains to your life and soul. past is past and whatever entailed to it cannot be corrected even if you cry a million tons of tears.
but i so believed that your mistakes are your shortcomings that could be your strongest pillar of your strength. it is because, this could be your basis not to commit the same mistake as you go farther in life for you as you have any idea how to deal with it for somehow familiarization is there; as it is giving you overviews that could help individual to overcome this kind of hardship. you cannot correct the mistakes from the past but your stair to succeed in life. just look forward and be optimistic. if you fail, get up. face the future boldly and do not let your past affect you or eat you. if you hurt someone, say sorry. forgive yourself and let loose of your conscience. there are people who are like that, that is why they are not moving on because of the grudges being felt in their senses. it is hard to deal with people who have bitterness in their past. i knew some sort of person being like that.
so what to do is that - do not correct the past because it is impossible to get back in there but rather, straightened your past by doing what you think is right and that is to be done in your future.
what about you, what you usually do to correct your misdeeds in your past so to have a promising future and a healthy being without any hurt feelings, doubt and grudges felt from your senses within? did you ever find yourself to loosen the ties that keep you worrisome about what you have done? do you think that it is the right timing to figure it correctly to free yourself from heavy conscience and broken emotion?
i had lots of mistakes before, but i had to let it go to help my being grow too. i repented and wished did not do such thing but it just slipped away and boom, all of it were being part of my life then and now even those are unwanted strings that cannot be avoided. i was wrecked, i cried, ashamed, resentful, tormented but my only refuge is God and my family. so i corrected my wrongs by doing what i think is right and now through God's powerful intercession, everything went right and doing things smoothly. so i guess, i am not perfect, but cycle of life must be done for me to know which and what is right.
share it here guys, if you agree that you cannot turn back the time. and what did you do to straightened your misdeeds in the past. thank you!
12 responses
@urbandekay (18278)
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20 Aug 12
Agreed,
The moving finger writes, and having writ moves on
Nor all your piety nor wit, can lure it back to cancel half a line
Nor all your tears, wash out one word of it
We cannot change the past, we can, however, learn from it and we can reconcile where there is division
all the best urban
@missjahn (4574)
• Philippines
23 Aug 12
hello there - thanks
the poem means to say as what was being written cannot be changed already by anyone, not even by your tears and such. nice poem you've got there. you the one who composed it?
thanks for agreeing with me... damage is damage. it maybe straightened out but not in the past, surely can be figure out in the future and as of today...
thanks
@urbandekay (18278)
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23 Aug 12
No, not I, it is from the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyám, a Persian mathematician and Astronomer.
all the best urban
@jenny1015 (13366)
• Philippines
20 Aug 12
That is true! You can never turn back time to correct your mistakes. But you will always have a chance to make yourself a better person in deciding things in the future. The mistakes we have made are the greatest lessons in life. This will help us become a much better person and can make our lives become happier.
@missjahn (4574)
• Philippines
20 Aug 12
thanks for agreeing with me. yes you are right that you still have the chance to correct your mistakes and straightened it out. chances are there as long as we are still breathing. so we can consume it anyway we wanted it to work. hope for the better. let go of the past to be happy and to be successful in life for your future attainment. enough with the sentiments and enjoy life to the fullest.
thanks for joining in this discussion :0)
@krupesh (2608)
• India
20 Aug 12
There is no point in thinking about the past which makes you not concentrate much about the future...the sooner you forget the mistakes of your past the faster is your recovery to a good future..
@missjahn (4574)
• Philippines
20 Aug 12
exactly - overcome your struggles from the past and free yourself to any thoughts that wrecked you. you cannot pursue and obtain what you want in life if you have past grudges and bringing it still everyday of your life. grow, forget and forgive; three important factors not to be left behind. life is too short for self-pitying. learn and enjoy.
thanks for joining your thoughts in here :)
@krupesh (2608)
• India
20 Aug 12
I had lost a lot of money(I mean it was very huge) in a business...I rectified the mistakes and as I was well aware of the trade I am a good businessman now with the same business with which I incurred losses previously...You should have the aim to succeed and always think about the future...you should have in your mind that you have a family to look after to and you need to show the world that you are not just like another ordinary person
@missjahn (4574)
• Philippines
20 Aug 12
i can relate with your past story but in a different manner. even if i am a late bloomer in directing myself to correct path to choose my right career to be held to have a brighter future, i do not want to regret choosing i.t for my course before. afterall, i can use this course to my new chosen course now. i maybe wasted too much time wandering without direction but at least as years passed i managed to redirect myself to correct or to patch what was being missing in my life before. it is better late than never. so i guess, i was being mislead before but tried hard to cope with what is lacking in me.
i want to replenish myself because i am not getting any younger and the fact that life is getting tougher and tougher everyday. you need to strive harder for you to have something to eat. gosh, it is not easy to earn money as of today.
thanks for showing enthusiast to reply to this thread. thanks
@joankath29 (60)
• Philippines
21 Aug 12
Let's say you really just can't change the past or the mistakes you have made in the past. All you have to do now is to face the future and try to make a difference in your present life by try to prevent in doing the things that went wrong in the past. It's in commiting mistakes that we learn to correct everything. We must learn forget everything in the past in order for us to move on with our present lives. There is always getting up everytime we fall. What's important is we learned a precious lesson for all those mistakes we make. And those lessons will totally make us stronger and a much better person in the future.
@missjahn (4574)
• Philippines
23 Aug 12
very well said there... welcome to mylot...
about the topic, i am sure that you already how to handle situation like this. move on and avoid looking back in the past. life is too precious to feel grudges and bitterness. get up and move on...
thanks for sharing your point of views in here :)
@hsofyan (3446)
• Jakarta, Indonesia
20 Aug 12
Great and useful discussions. I agree with you.
I will ask forgiveness of God, for all my past mistakes.
Secondly, if possible, I will straighten out the problem of the past, with apologies to the person concerned.
Third, I try hard to not make the same mistake (or something like that).
Thank you for sharing.
I will ask forgiveness of God, for all my past mistakes.
Secondly, if possible, I will straighten out the problem of the past, with apologies to the person concerned.
Third, I try hard to not make the same mistake (or something like that).
Thank you for sharing.@missjahn (4574)
• Philippines
23 Aug 12
good scheme to do. there is no use in crying over our past mistakes. forget and forget would be the best thing to do over repenting the mistakes with a hope that we cannot do the same thing again in the future.
your welcome and should thank you too for the job well done in your participation in here :)
@ravisivan (14079)
• India
20 Aug 12
missjahn
turning back the time -- impossible. man can become old but he cannot become younger. sometimes i use to think why god has given only one life to us--if something happens and heart stops functioning --finished. nothing can be done.
but if we get cold --as i got yesteday- i am reovering it is ok. a few things in life cannot be corrected or put back,.
A married man cannot become a bachelor. One's age cannot be reduced even by a fraction of day.
it is not like computer wherein you can reboot as of old date registry.(i do not know the details)
good topic.
@missjahn (4574)
• Philippines
23 Aug 12
hello there ravi
yes, turning the back the time to do undone things in there and straightened failures would be so impossible. the best thing we can do is that try to figure our mistakes and do the best we can to learn from it and never do the same mistakes again in the past.
thanks for the compliments for for following this post :)
@besweet (9859)
• Ireland
20 Aug 12
Hello! I think that the past has teached us a lot, it gives us experience to move on with our lives and avoid doing the same mistakes in the future. We can't go back to make things right but we can definitely learn some good lessons. I also belive that we shouldn't regret the things that we've done if they are based on our principles and we strongly belived in them! We should accept what has happened and move on with the experiences that we've gained from them!
@missjahn (4574)
• Philippines
20 Aug 12
hi there - good point in there. it gives simple sensibilities but gained lessons through your words uttered and shared in here. yes, right at that. life is obscure and we should understand that. we got hurt but we will stand from it and be strong out from that experience. life is too inevitable, and committing mistakes were part of it. human is vulnerable because most of the times we are fickle minded and sometimes we are so reckless in making decisions and impulsiveness takes place; we do not care what would be the consequences after as long as it gave us the peak of happiness, that is why we cannot make mistakes. to decide right, to do what is right, it needs a little sacrifice, and a little of discipline not to do the things that might harm us and do it all wrong. prayer to God for consultation would help you with that.
thanks there for sharing your point of views ;)
@mikyung (2232)
• Philippines
20 Aug 12
As what they have said - time spent cannot be retrieved. All I have to do is ask for forgiveness to that someone I've done wrong. I will not promise anything but that will surely make me more careful and mindful to the things that I'm about to do next time. Thanks
@missjahn (4574)
• Philippines
23 Aug 12
promises are made which bound to be broken. it is bad to promise more if this promises will not be done in due time. okay, we cannot promise not to do the same mistake again but at least we are aware if do this thing this might be the result of it. some enlightenment would follow in our subconscious right then. so as soon as we can avoid this kind of trouble better to escape and avoid from this kind of entanglement.
thanks for joining in here :)
@roshigo58 (4859)
• Pune, India
20 Aug 12
Hi,
you are right. we cannot go back to our past and correct the mistakes. But no one is perfect. Every man makes the mistakes. But we should not waste time in thinking about past. We should try to avoid mistakes. When we make mistakes we should not blame others for our faults. We have to improve us and learn from our past mistakes. If anyone is hurt by our mistakes we should say sorry.
@ajinleo (283)
• India
20 Aug 12
We can not change the past. So it is unnecessary to think about the past. We might have done some great mistakes in the past. We can not change those things. Yet we can learn a lesson from our past mistakes. We should try to avoid those mistakes in the future.
@missjahn (4574)
• Philippines
20 Aug 12
living our past is our prerequisite to live in the future. no one lives today with us that does not live or undergone living their lives in the past. for it is already exaggeration if one jumped from any dimension of life.
yes agree with you, our past experiences gave us necessary lessons to grow more and to be successful in life. even we tried not to commit mistakes but we can say that no one is perfect and people do not endure or made mistakes are not normal person because we are born in this world tempted naturally. so it is another explanation to make if added and expounded this other topic in this discussion.
thanks for joining in here. :0)
