Strengthen yourself with vigour and virtues.
Brooding over your past mistakes and failures will only fill your mind with grief, regret and depression. Regret and worry depletes energy. Do not repeat those past mistakes in the future. Just think of the causes which led to your failures and try to remove them in future. Strengthen yourself with vigour and virtues. Develop your will power.
To regret and brood is to show your cowardice in the face of God and to disturb your peace of mind for nothing. Even the little mouse shows courage in seeking their food.
If you are shy of obstacles, then you end with nothing done worthwhile in life. Living, to be true, it must be purposeful. Have goals to reach and ideals to strive for. Remember, goals are seldom reached without encountering challenges. Such opposition and challenge should not upset your peace of mind, but should strengthen your Will. Success will be possible if you learn to accept these opposing forces as an inevitable part of phenomenal life. Besides, this World is purposely full of challenges.
Never regret.
Learn the lessons from your past experiences. Remember the lessons. Let the lessons guide your future actions. Do not brood over the past.
Do not regret… “If I had done that, I would have become this… If only I had…” This is all false and futile thinking, waste of time and energy, because worry depletes energy and creates dis-ease. Worry does nothing more.
Remember this, whatever happened was destined to happen that way. It could not have happened in any other way. Everything, from the tiniest movement of a particle of the mightiest disturbances in the Universe, everything in the past, present and future, every cause and every effect, has been ordained in certain way by the omnipresent, omniscient and omnipotent Will of God.
Things happen as they are destined to happen. Whatever will be, will be. No human has the power to alter the course of God’s Will. “Que sera sera” is eternally true, universally true.
Wisdom lies in seeing the working of God’s Will in every happening and remaining at peace with your self and the World. Be like the tiny mouse – determined, fearless and quick to explore anything new.