How do you let go of time of your life wasted?

[AngelBlue]

It's all true Brian.
Nothing is ever a waste.
Everything is for a reason and a reason for everything....

[~Lioness~]

Find a life that is, in your view, your best life. Become the person who lives that life. Then just live it fully and mindfully. Then you won't think about the past too much

Hey guys! Thanks for the responses. Good to know I’m not the only one in the situation. Unfortunately I’ve got some bad news about my health and the only thing on my mind right now is keeping alive and sane. Miss H I’d like to have a talk with my past self and guide. Weird ideas they might have had about my growth. :)

[Miss Hepburn]

Originally Posted by Pathfinder

Miss H I’d like to have a talk with my past self and guide. Weird ideas they might have had about my growth. :)

Hi! I just posted a link to a very informative talk by a guy that for some reason remembers the life or place before he came here.
It rings true to me from other things I have read and my own 1 scene I was shown from the 'In between place' before coming back here...
That is,
we are offered diff lives to work on things and we can say , "No, that would be be too intense'...and so we have choices.
In other words, we choose if we want to be born blind or have an alcoholic parent to work on diff things.
This is eye-opening information for some, since they can have a skewed idea about punishment and karma or even God, not realizing
this entire 'thing' is about love.

Pre-birth info: https://www.spiritualforums.com/vb/s...d.php?t=145869

[Redchic12]

''We are offered diff lives to work on things and we can say , "No, that would be be too intense'...and so we have choices.
In other words, we choose if we want to be born blind or have an alcoholic parent to work on diff things.''

I have read quite a few books from different authors who stated exactly what you have written
in your comments Miss H.

Also when Delores Cannon hypnotised various people from all over the world, the exact same comments came thru.
So perhaps there is some truth to it.

[AngelBlue]

So sorry Pathfinder to hear about your health issues.
I too am going through my own and would invite you to join my thread "Fix you " in members only section.

[lostsoul13]

I think a hour or two on your hobby’s etc would be enough for me… I spent the last three years going through all the ways you could die and my reaction to it..

Years went by quickly lol :(

I think procrastination is hard because so much time could be wasted…

But I find doing a couple hours and if anything falls into place~ fate or something…

I think we have to get over it like we have to get over everything else!!!

[hallow]

Originally Posted by Pathfinder

About all the time spent on something that didn’t work. I find myself googling about how the art industry sucks. I enjoy drawing less. Anyone been there? With art or anything else?

Brian

art anything music, painting, sculpting, and so on is about passion. Some of the greatest artists never saw any appreciation for there work. If you want my opinion, stop googling, stop looking for outside approval. Art is a thing of personal passion. Don't let anyone or anything kill it. But if you and only you feel that passion has run it's course, then so be it, move on.

[dream jo]

Good question if I could press a button on myself I would be around delete the toxic people that got my life I would because I would have done well and my mediumship and I would like the ship because I would have been if you had left there because I would have paid a funeral director but I don't argue any 9 I won't look after them people because I can cover it because of dead people do you no harm do you no harm it's a living it looks bad

[Bluto]

I've spent almost 20 years driving a truck for a living. I consider this a total waste of time and energy, and a necessary evil within a cruel and unjust monetary system. I despise how 99.9% of the population are obliged to exchange their time and energy for relatively little currency, thus neglecting spiritual pursuits. So I'm currently developing my artistic skills to try and switch, aged 44, to earning my money from being an artist.

Or do I despise it? Maybe not. How do I deal with the notion I've wasted two decades of my prime years driving an 18 wheeler? I frame it positively in my mind. I've earnt good money, was able bodied and competent enough to tough it out all those years, and I learnt a lot about life. I overcame things such as road rage, and made myself a better person by employing the virtues of forgiveness (of idiot and dangerous drivers who cut me off for example), of patience and empathy (with less competent drivers). Not only this, but trucking has enabled me to lead a certain quality of life I couldn't otherwise have afforded. In other words, I've chosen to find positive meaning in my 2 decades of suffering. In this context it ceases to be something which makes me bitter, and becomes something enriching and character building. It has taught me about what I don't want to do for the remainder of my life. Through doing it, it has, by it's very nature, leveraged me into following my passions. For you, you've followed your passions, and through its failure has steered you into ordinary work. But YOU DID IT! You had the courage to follow your heart. So many people wish they could do that, and never have the courage to even consider it, yet alone actually do it. YOU DID IT. So you've developed the virtues of bravery and courage that so many people will never have the confidence or fearlessness to do.

The other way I deal with it is choosing not to take this life seriously at all. I don't. I think life is an absurd joke, as is the human condition. I believe in the eternal soul, and think of human physical incarnations as temporary and relatively short experiences in the overall eternal consciousness we all are. I think a physical incarnation is to the eternal soul what a single taxi ride is to one entire human lifespan. If I'm wrong about that, and this life is all there is before it's lights out, then at least my attitude made it more light-hearted, joyful, and bearable. I win either way.

I also chose to forgive myself for sitting at the wheel of a big truck, and not pursuing something else. I consider things like self-forgiveness, self-love, self-acceptance, and so on, to be the ultimate lessons we need to learn within this spiritual gymnasium called life.

It's all about how you chose to perceive your wasted years. Do you chose to see them with bitterness? Or do you chose to see them as meaningful in any positive sense? You have the free will to make that choice. One will consume you and steals joy, the other nourishes you and gives joy.

I return to what I said about developing virtues through our choices. You developed bravery and courage through following your passion and heart, and I developed empathy, forgiveness, and patience through driving trucks for 20 years. It could be said, and many believe, that the eternal soul incarnates several times, and each incarnation is about developing a handful of virtues as lessons to be learned. In this sense you might well have learned your lessons. So in answer to your question, looking at things from an eternal perspective might be one way to let go of time 'wasted', because it hasn't been wasted at all. It's always well spent no matter what we do.