Personal Reflection

What is the definition

Of a personal reflection?

I would say that the definition

of a personal reflection is;

Looking back upon your life,

Acknowledging mistakes,

Laughing at ludicrous thins you have done.

Realizing what you've gained: money, power, love.

Or maybe realizing what you've lost: Relationships, money, power, love,

Life.

Sometimes there's those times when

You're sitting in your quiet place

That you realize that how much you've failed.

You took the wrong path down the life board,

Met the wrong people, invested in the wrong things,

Missed so many chances because you were to dumb to see them.

Let the love of your life leave, because you were oblivious to how much,

They truly loved you.

You realize that you didn't appreciate the things you had,

When you had them and now those things are gone.

You might not have liked life then,

But it's better than now.

And you didn't appreciate it while you had it,

Because you're selfish and stuck in the past.

You were rude to people, taking your misery out on them.

And looking back, as a personal reflection,

You realize how rude, selfish, stuck up and ungrateful you really are,

Because the whole time you were stuck in the past.

All you ever think about is the past,

Never today,  not often enough the future.

The past was so much better, it's the truth.

People who live in the past tend to be unhappy,

Reflecting on when times were better.

People who live in the future tend to be anxious,

Afraid of failing more than they already have, afraid of what's to come.

People who live in the present, however, tend to be quite content,

Focusing on today and forgetting about every other day.

They leave failures and mistakes in the past and plan ahead to know exactly what's to come.

So people, live in the present. Life is to short to think about anything but the present.