The Paisley patterned path to success and happiness.

Wandering around the planet in a daze of half truths and half fables I find myself at a loss of what is for my own good and what would better be left behind hanging on the trees of happy memories and harsh lessons.  Over the great many, or so it seems, years that I have lived and hopefully grown wiser I have realised that it is not always a good thing to hang onto what in the past brought about feelings of euphoria. Pleasant memories so often tend to keep one in that space and time of their lives not allowing the natural forward movement that leads to wisdom and self-contentment, it is not only others who make us feel good about ourselves, past experiences play a major part in our private battles for self esteem. 
How easy it is to hang on to those moments, re-living them to allow ourselves to smile at what once was or even might have been.  In the human way of strange self-preservation we leave behind or slam doors on those things that have made us feel unhappy about ourselves and our situations. 
Being busy trying to recall joyous and opportune experiences we hate the thought of losing, we prefer to let go of iniquitous times not realizing the magnitude and significance of why we had to go through with them.  The circles of life and learning then come into the concerto of our lives as we repeat, almost like an out of tune descant, the failures, broken relationships, abuse, shattered hopes and dreams of past and closed off thoughts and feelings.  Humans regard the good things in their lives as being their just deserves and the bad as being bad luck. 
Perhaps if we were to take all the sad and hurtful negative moments that we have endured and put them on the window sill to take a better look, we would see that in a strange way they seem to link with each other. The whirls and swirls of feathered Paisley patterns form a maze of confusion in our brains until we realize that all is repeated until the lesson is learnt.

It is then, and only then,  that we free ourselves enough to know that we can be our own best friends and stand on our own two feet to face the world of success and happiness.