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Jamál (Beauty), 10 ‘Aẓamat (Grandeur) 176 B.E. - Sunday, May 26, 2019
PROMPT: Share an instance in your life when you would have liked a do-over. Thank God, there are no do-overs! There is no going back to change either choices or actions, because if there were I would not have learned anything about myself, humanity, or the universe. I would be a different person than I am today. Not a better person and not worse person, but different person. Not that there aren't choices and actions I would like to change; however, if I got the chance to change them it would change my future from that time on. I wouldn't have learned the lessons I did at the time, and I would be a different person than I am today. It takes too long to retrace my steps over the shards of memory, and across the petrified tears of yesterday. It takes too long to follow paths covered with the dust of history, littered with scraps of illusions, and strewn with the bones of vain imaginings. |