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COLUMN: PAST! PRESENT! FUTURE!

───   13:54 Fri, 13 Oct 2017

COLUMN: PAST! PRESENT! FUTURE! | News Article

"Past is experience, Present is experiment and Future is expectation. Use your experience in your experiments to achieve your expectations."


A wise man said these words after a deep thought about life. Isn't it sad just how much we don't have control over what happens to us and what people decide to do to us? But wait, isn't it more GREAT that we have control over how we react to what happens to us and what people decide to do to us. Isn't it just amazing that we have the power to decide how we see things in life? Just like the wise man above decided to see the past as experience, present as experiment and future as expectations.



We too have the fight of our life time to put up in how we treat the past, present and the future. First things first; what's done is done, there isn't anyway you going to turn back the hands of time and undo what's done. But you know what's awesome? The fact that you can decide today to take the positives out of what happened in the past, learn from the negatives of the past and build yourself up from them. Once something has happened to you, you need to stop fighting it, stop beating yourself up, accept what has happened and let go off the past. The more you hold onto it, the more you delay the present from taking their rightful place.....



Talking about the present; you have today. You have been privileged and blessed enough to see this day, so make the best out of it. Yesterday is gone with its misery, failures, sorrow, pain, confusion and hurt. Today, right now, you have the present to attract and create the success, happiness and joy you want in life. The greatest thing about the present is that; you have utmost control over it. You can simply decide what you want to do with it and you can easily do it and shape up this day and the rest of your future however way you wish. Oh man, I'm getting excited right now. Here's something about the present; it gives you a chance to look back at the past and forward to the future. It allows you to stand between the past and future and gives you the right to decide what is to be in the present, right now at this precious moment. My advice? You have the present in the palm of your hands, take charge and control of it. This is your moment to be and do anything and everything you want in life! Don't let your past fool you into believing that you are imprisoned to it. You have the present! The past is behind you! A bright, better and a greater future lies ahead of you! Look forward to it!



Future neh? A very complex yet exciting subject if you ask me. When the past has you living your life on your knees, eating out of the bowl of pain and sadness; when the present has failed to remedy the excruciating happenings of the past; the future appears, giving you something to hold onto as you look forward to better days than the ones you experienced in the past and in the present. Suffice it to say; we might not have control over what happens in the future but it's something to rejoice about, it's something worth you reminding yourself that joy comes in the morning, that tomorrow the heaven's gates will open wide and glorious blessings will pour into your life. The future is eternity, limitless and full of endless possibilities. Anything and everything can happen in it; get excited and rejoice that there's a light at the end of the tunnel...called the future!!



Today being FRIDAY.......my bad; I meant today being FIGHTDAY, I challenge you to FIGHT to

Use your experience in your experiments to achieve your expectations. Put up a fight of your lifetime to do and achieve anything and everything you desire in life!!

HAPPY FIGHT DAY!!


-Fannie Zim



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