I could have said sorry, I could have expressed my love, I could have worked hard, I could have said the truth, I could have……
The most not supposed to come lines here are “I could have”
I could have. What does this phrase mean? At any given moment in our lives, there are certain things that could have happened but didn’t. The magic moments go unrecognised, and then suddenly, the hand of destiny changes everything.
Rarely do we realise that we are in the midst of the extraordinary. Miracles occur all around us, signs from God show us the way, angels plead to be heard, but we pay little attention to them because we have been taught that we must follow certain formulas and rules.
We suffer because we are unable to impose our own rules. Every day we get that one moment in which we have the ability to change everything that makes us unhappy. Every day, we try to pretend that we haven’t perceived that moment, that it doesn’t exist—that today is the same as yesterday and will be the same as tomorrow. But if people really pay attention to their everyday lives, they will discover that magic moment. It may arrive in the instant when we are doing something mundane, like putting our front-door key in the lock; it may lie hidden in the quiet that follows the lunch hour or in the thousand and one things that all seem the same to us. But that moment exists – a moment when all the power of the stars becomes a part of us and enables us to perform miracles.
Joy is sometimes a blessing, but it is often a conquest. Our magic moment helps us to change and sends us off in search of our dreams. Yes, we are going to suffer, we will have difficult times, and we will experience many disappointments—but all of this is transitory; it leaves no permanent mark. And one day we will look back with pride and faith at the journey we have taken. Pitiful is the person who is afraid of taking risks. Perhaps this person will never be disappointed or disillusioned; perhaps she won’t suffer the way people do when they have a dream to follow. But when that person looks back and at some point, everyone looks back—he will hear his heart saying, “What have you done with the miracles that destiny has planted in your days? What have you done with the talents God bestowed on you? You buried yourself in a cave because you were fearful of losing those talents. So this is your heritage: the certainty that you wasted your life” Pitiful are the people who must realise this. Because when they are finally able to believe in miracles, their life’s magic moments will have already passed them by. Sometimes an uncontrollable feeling of sadness grips us. We recognise that the magic moment of the day has passed and that we’ve done nothing about it. Life begins to conceal its magic and its art. So the main thing is that there should not be any I could have
So the main thing is that there should not be any ‘I could have’ phrase in our lives. We should not miss any opportunity in our lives that knock our door or even that seem to knock our door.
You don’t know what can happen tomorrow. Life is like a novel. You don’t have any idea what miracle you will do until you turn the page.
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The only person who doesn’t care about anything is the child inside us. So, we have to listen to the child we once were, the child who still exists inside us. That child understands magic moments. We can stifle its cries, but we cannot silence its voice. The child we once were is still there. Blessed are the children, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. If we are not reborn—if we cannot learn to look at life with the innocence and the enthusiasm of childhood—it makes no sense to go on living. There are many ways to commit suicide. Those who try to kill the body violate God’s law. Those who try to kill the soul also violate God’s law, even though their crime is less visible to others. We have to pay attention to what the child in our heart tells us. We should not be embarrassed by this child. We must not allow this child to be scared because the child is alone and is almost never heard. We must allow the child to take the reins of our lives. The child knows that each day is different from every other day. We must please this child—even if this means that we act in ways we are not used to, in ways that may seem foolish to others
Hence, break the glass, please—and free yourself from all these damned rules, from needing to find an explanation for everything, from doing only what others approve of and recognise the magic moment and feel the difference in your lives.