Looking Back (But Not In Turns)

It is somewhat amusing and very scary when you take take a moment to reflect on your current position in life. When I say position I mean more of a high level overview and not specific to just one context. The majority of us will always fill as though we could be doing better, but the biggest room is the room for improvement, while some of us will feel that things are where they should be. I am not sure where I stand. On one hand I look at my current position and feel that I could have done better. Ok let me be honest the disappointment is in the fact that I am not doing better. This is not to say that I am not doing well.  You see herein lies my quandry. I find it easier to grasp air than I do obtaining contentment. Why is that? I look at others and their willingness to accept their position, their lot in life, and what seems to be a relative degree of reconcilliation with it and by a larger token what seems to be a greater degree of peace with that and feel a sense of resintment towards them. How dare they choose aquiessence over the struggle for more. Then it dawns on me, we are conditioned to push, conditioned to feel and think that we need and are entitled to more. More hurt, more heartache, more stress, more disappointment. Yes there is truth in the saying less is more. There is no harm in looking back to see how you much have progressed or regressed in some instances. I guess it all boils down to how you feel about where you are at and where you will be. Just be careful, the more time you spend looking back means the more likely you are to miss what is front of you.

About the picture. I usually attempt to make the pictures meaning overt as it relates to the post. Either in context or through the mood. I know some of you may not see the correlation between the motorcycle and the post. Piloting a motorcycle is very different that driving a car. The motorcycle and its driver truly become one unit. The slightest change in the riders position is transmitted to the bike. One of the first lessons you are taught when first learning to ride a motorcyle is to turn your head. The bike will go where your head is turned. When you see the sport bike riders racing around the track at 200+ mph and taking those turns with the bike only inches from the ground, they are never looking straight ahead. They must in order to successfully negotiate those turns look through the turn. They can not afford to look back. A quick glance over the should upon exiting the turn is typically all that they will give because at this point they must set up mentally and physically for the next scenario.