“In the final analysis, the questions of why bad things happen to good people transmutes itself into some very different questions, no longer asking why something happened, but asking how we will respond, what we intend to do now that it happened.”—Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
One of my favorite scenes in Forrest Gump is when Forrest Gump steps in dog poop and responds, “It happens.”—thus inspiring the bumper sticker, “Sh—happens.”
The concept is that stuff outside of our control is going to happen in our lives. Good or bad. Happy or sad. Stuff happens. “It happens…. Sometimes.” The question should never be “Why?” Instead, we should ask ourselves, “What next?” In addition, the response to the question, “If you could go back in time and change one thing, what would it be?”, is (should always be) “nothing.” We can’t look back with the hope of change. We can only look forward. We can’t affect the past. We can only affect the moment we are in. Therefore,….
Be your best today; be better tomorrow.
Carpe momento!!