What If?

Such a small statement, "what if?", yet could have enormous consequences.

"What if?" may cause a positive experience and yet in most cases it will cause a negative experience, leaving you wanting, this I have found over my years.

When one looks back over their Life Experiences, no matter where they are on their Life Path and make the comment to ones' self or to others, "what if?" How many Life experiences, loves, friends, adventures and Life changing moments that you may have missed?

I have found everyone seems to have many "what ifs?" to contemplate. What if I had said this, or not said that, what if I had ventured to this place, or not gone. What if, what if, what if? They seem to be endless.

Contemplating all of the "what ifs?" in your life, after the fact, looking back with questions or remorse, seeing how different or imporved your Life experience could have been. Maybe a love lost, maybe a friend not made, maybe a place or People not experienced. This as I see it, is ever present in the lives of most Human Beings. What If?

As a boy, words from my Grandmother, "If it feels good do it". Then she always added, "As long as you do no harm to yourself or others, never looking back and saying what if?"

There is a concept in my Culture, this thing in todays Society that is called an "urge", an inner feeling, or a need for you to do something, was better understood as a request of the Spirit. Look to these "urges", these requests of the Spirit, they were placed along your Life Path for a purpose. Ignore, your Life, itself, could have dire circumstances. Acting upon these as they occur, you will never have to look back with, "what ifs?"

Action, reacting or acting upon these so called "urges" as they present themselves will eliminate all of the looking back upon your Life, wondering about, what if? There will be times of uncertainty, but know, that urge, that request from the Spirit, was placed there upon your Life Path for a reason. ACT UPON THEM! Wondering how different or how fulfilled your Life could have been IF only you had stepped up and spoken to that individual, letting them know your thoughts, your feeling. Wondering about how Life changing, IF you had ventured to a place, experienced another Culture, another Peoples' concepts, could have been?

I have found people seem to have great concerns about the reactions of others. You ARE who you ARE, respect yourself, as you are. It does not matter what others my think, it, IS your life. Look to what makes you happy, what makes you content with yourself, with YOUR Life. The opinions of others are just that, AN OPINION, neither right nor wrong, only THEIR CONCEPT.

Looking back on things that happened, or did not happen in your Life, people you had encountered, or did not, could be very unsettling and could cause many regrets.

"What if?" a sad circumstance of the Human condition.

A small effort, confidence in ones' self, will eliminate any "WHAT IF?" in your future.

The Teaching August 1947

My thoughts October 1965

White Crow