In some rare cases in life, we are given a second chance.  We can’t go backward, but we can achieve our goals.  Life is seldom perfect.  So we have to make the best of it and keep going.  We also can make a difference in the lives of others.  Perhaps that’s the greatest joy? Seeing them rise to the top!

Opportunities can sometimes be missed on purpose or by accident.  We thoroughly disappoint ourselves at times, too, by not being fully prepared in time.  Or, maybe our judgments were impaired, and we made a wrong decision?  At the wrong time?  That, my friend, can set you back for years, even to the point of eliminating your goals.  Oops seems almost out of place here, but it happens.

The best thing you can do at times like these is to take the shattered dream and begin to sing right on through the misery.  Begin to say, “Yes, I can do this!”  Pick yourself up from the floor and dare to believe in yourself no matter what’s gone wrong or for how long.  You might be thinking out loud, “That’s impossible because it can’t be done.  It’s too far gone.”

You might be right.  However, “What if” is still hanging out there!  The real question is, what do you do now?  Where’s my courage now?  The fact remains it could be a miracle.  It could be your second chance because that is entirely possible.

If life were perfect, it would be like this or that?  However, we live in a natural and cold world sometimes.  The truth of what’s in you will come out.  So all you can do is fix what’s hidden.  Repair what’s within: the part(s) that no one sees.  Maybe you’ve been empty for years?  No joy?  No life?  No real triumph.  Only pain and heartache?  The “What if” remains to be seen.

Find a way, even a small way, to make progress.  Be realistic in your approach but don’t surrender your “What if” because that question needs to remain tall.  Also, don’t take “comments” from the corner of defeat, even though that would be logical and easy to do.  No.  Be different and pick yourself up from the fall.

It is only when we meet the end that the real beginning starts.  Take your grace and seek the refuge of justice.  Starve revenge because that’s never the answer.  It only creates more pain.  If necessary, clean your “closet” repeatedly to prepare for the day when your victory comes.  Yes.  The day when your success comes because it will.  It just might surprise you with triumphant truth from within.