Tragedy

Sometimes things happen in our lives that we cannot explain and have difficulty even surviving. Such is the nature of tragedy.  Tragedy can occur in our lives with no apparent rhyme or reason.  Or tragedy can happen by our own fingertips.  Either way, no matter how much we may try to do so, we can never go back and change a single moment of our lives.  Someone famous has said, "Tragedy is a tool for the living to gain wisdom, not a guide by which to live." Rich thought.  How many of us have our sights set on a tragedy contained within our past?  How many of us have grown so comfortable with the event that we carry it with us wherever we go?  How many of us have begun even to use it as a guide?  Forrest Gump recalled, "Mama always said, "You have to put your past behind you before you can move forward." I think, once you have learned from the tragedy, Mama was right! Is the tragedy in YOUR life a tool or a guide?  You ponder that.