Woulda Coulda Shoulda...Its in the Experience

"In wisdom gathered over time I have found that every experience is a form of exploration." -- Ansel Adams

Ansel Adams

If I can only hold onto that thought!  That every experience is indeed an exploration is indeed an inspiring idea.  Sometimes I get to caught up in the drudgery of a routine activity or my resistance to actually doing something I think I do not want to do, that I forget that there is some reason I have been called to participate.  Oh, how I hate to be called sometimes!  There are times when I would so much rather go for a ride on my bike or work in my garden or just sit and read a book!   Yet those are all options, and worthy ones.  Those, too, are experience of exploration.

The thought to keep in mind in each experience I surmise then, is that each experience has something to teach us about ourselves.  It is not unlike the belief I have on occaision adhered to: everyone who comes into our lives is there to teach us something.  So it is with each experience.  If it were not so, what would be the point?  Why have memories and consciousness if we were not meant to use them to store histories and images of all that we encounter?

So there you have it again.  It is really in how you look at things.  Are we here to live?  To experience and explore, to gain wisdom and become those beings we were meant to be?  I guess the one caveat here would be to choose the to explore each experience and not get caught up in "woulda coulda shoulda".  Because if you could have or should have, you probably would have.