Your Past Teaches You

My Regrets

I'm seventeen...
But regrets my past..
My life is still in its dormancy,
Is yet to begin...
But the things I've experienced,
Have always made me think..
And now I regret my past
What will my future be?
Only if I could go back in time
I'd change a lot of things
If I could find a time machine,
My present won't be so miserable..
I'm seventeen...
And I regret my past
What will my future be?
If I've started this phase,
At this dormant stage.


This was a poem I wrote when I was seventeen. The other day I found this from one of my old books and I was kinda moved. I couldn't believe that I'm the same person who wrote this at that age. Although I couldn't remember the reason for me writing this at that time, I knew one thing. I am not that depressed and shy girl anymore now. I have become much more stronger than that.

One thing I have learned in this life is that you cannot live peacefully in this world with a sack of regrets hanging on your shoulder. You keep on filling it in day by day with your thoughts, deeds and hopes and this is not a healthy thing to do. There's always a point in life where you have to be in that "process of growing" and then there's a point in life when you have to stop doing it.Because not everything is meant to be the same all the time. You have to learn to let go of things people and circumstances that weigh you down in your life.

So if you ever feel that you are not doing well in life or you are going in the wrong direction, trust me...things are happening in the way they are supposed to be. you just have to worry less and start living your present.

And oh yes..what would the 21 year old me say to this 17 year old me?
"Baby, you have always been on the right path..whatever you have gone through was supposed to make you strong. The 21 year old you is proud of you and she's much more stronger"

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