Getting Away From All That Could Have Been

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tely nowhere. Extreme rumination leads to this state. .</p><p id="583f">That relationship didn’t work out. After grieving the death of it and that idealized person in my mind… how about I look at the current moment and see the beauty of the air that I’m currently breathing?</p><p id="3a3c"><a href="https://flowmar.medium.com/blue-in-the-face-85c0847ea8a2">The grand simplicity of the rhythm of the breath.</a> In. Out. In. Out. It’s so simple, but it’s what is literally keeping me going.</p><p id="1d85">One thing that will block the simplicity of breathing from doing what it’s supposed to do is to reside and marinate in resentment or sadness toward the loss.</p><p id="776f">The only one that can remove that curse is the one who cast it: me. I need to forgive myself and the other party (or parties involved) so that I’m able to get back to the simple first thing that we do bef

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ore anything else as soon as we are born:</p><p id="16ad"><b>Breathe</b>.</p><p id="0120"><i>©2021, Omar Imam. All rights reserved.</i></p><h1 id="7afe">Be Open Says;</h1><div id="a3e3" class="link-block"> <a href="https://readmedium.com/be-open-submission-guidelines-41ea51ef4ef1"> <div> <div> <h2>We Invite You to Become Our Writer — Be Open Submission Guidelines</h2> <div><h3>You don’t have to be a great writer or super perfect human to contribute here. I believe everyone can become inspirator…</h3></div> <div><p>medium.com</p></div> </div> <div> <div style="background-image: url(https://miro.readmedium.com/v2/resize:fit:320/1*eBrTZS3wC0WwzBZjivi7tg.png)"></div> </div> </div> </a> </div></article></body>

Why Waste My Time Dwelling and Marinating in the Past?

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If I am constantly focused on everything that could have been, I am no longer focused on what can be in the future, nor am I focused on what is right now. If I’m stuck in the past, I have no where to go, because the past has already been written.

Of course, it’s important to reflect sometimes. But if you spend your life in reflection, you’re basically trapped in one spot, permanently. I can’t think of any curse that could be worse than that. A self-imposed, self-fulfilling prophecy of going absolutely nowhere. Extreme rumination leads to this state. .

That relationship didn’t work out. After grieving the death of it and that idealized person in my mind… how about I look at the current moment and see the beauty of the air that I’m currently breathing?

The grand simplicity of the rhythm of the breath. In. Out. In. Out. It’s so simple, but it’s what is literally keeping me going.

One thing that will block the simplicity of breathing from doing what it’s supposed to do is to reside and marinate in resentment or sadness toward the loss.

The only one that can remove that curse is the one who cast it: me. I need to forgive myself and the other party (or parties involved) so that I’m able to get back to the simple first thing that we do before anything else as soon as we are born:

Breathe.