This is Illusion

The thing about life is, quite simply, that you can't go back. You cannot redo. Cannot choose again the choice you should have chosen the first time.

YOU. CANNOT. GO. BACK.

Learn this. Know this. It has been learned firsthand by far too many. And none of us, not your worst enemies, would wish that on you.

Live life like it is the last time. The last chance. The last time you'll ever live that moment. This is critical.

Because we come to resemble the choices we make. It is not the case that we make choices from who we are - who we are is a false construction. A false conception of the nature of human, of the nature of that which is natural. Who we are is an illusion.

And in that illusion, the best way to "know" someone, and thus the best way to "know" yourself, is to perceive consistency in action. It is this consistency that appears as personality. As character. As who we are. Obscuring, gently, the truth - that we are an ever shifting myriad of choices.

Choose well, for you are choosing the life you will be forced to live from that point on.

Because you cannot go back.