The Lost Tooth

I think we spend a great deal of our lives pondering over our regrets and shortcomings. Those words we never said and actions we never established keep bugging us; and those memories that we really want to get rid off keep coming back around like a swinging pendulum. It would usually feel like we cannot do anything about them and so we eventually make them part of our lives; continuously reflecting on them every passing day. It becomes a way of life.

It’s just like when you lose a permanent tooth and there’s a gap in your parade of teeth. Every now and then, our tongue rolls over this gap and we remember the lost tooth. But then, we get used to it but our tongue also gets fond of rolling over that gap. So it seems unavoidable.

I, personally, do reflect on some unfortunate or demeaning events that should belong to my past. Events like the time I got expelled from a previous high school or when I let my self-consciousness and inordinate view of life steal crucial opportunities from me (Well, that’s as much info or example as I can put out here). I think of these things and I’m like my past would have been better or perfect without such and then I measure up how things would have turned out if those facets of my life went the way I wanted. 

I wouldn’t think of it as a bad thing to pore on our past and then try to learn from our mistakes; which is what we ought to do. However, I would consider it a terrible thing if we do this continuously and still make no considerable changes in our lives. As we would have it, that’s the essence of the continuity of life - the faith in a tomorrow. Cognitively, we expect the clock to keep ticking as long as the earth exist. If the clock keeps ticking, then there is a second that comes after this one, an hour that comes after the present one and a day that comes after today. Therefore, time is dynamic and so is life. 

Everything in life undergoes changes that occurs over time, from your metabolism to your behavior to the nature around you; nothing is static. So why should we (be static)? If the clock has to keep on ticking then we have to keep on changing.

Yes, we can’t regain that lost tooth and fill that gap (without having a surgery) but we can accept the fact that the lost tooth is gone forever and let it be that way. Avoid the unavoidable and make considerable modifications. The truth is no change can be made without forsaking the antecedent. So Let our faith in a tomorrow give us the courage to eventually make permutations in our lives. Give your future a head start by looking forward to (and preparing for) it. Look forward to a new tomorrow, look forward to a new start. Why? Because we can. 

                                                                                                                      Tobi Nifesi