{"id":69,"date":"2014-10-30T09:01:14","date_gmt":"2014-10-30T14:01:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/happinesstruths.wordpress.com\/?p=69"},"modified":"2024-03-28T01:55:57","modified_gmt":"2024-03-28T01:55:57","slug":"if-we-focus-on-the-past-we-will-never-enjoy-the-view-ahead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/happinesstruths.com\/?p=69","title":{"rendered":"If We Focus On The Past We Will Never Enjoy The View Ahead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I accepted this week (even though I have always known it) that no one&#8217;s life is perfect. It really is what you make it. I&#8217;ve spent so much time looking back at the past thinking of all my should haves, could haves, and would haves in vain only to now realize that it was wasted time. \u00a0Maybe if I had spent more time looking at life from the windshield and not the back window there would now be fewer of those shoulda coulda wouldas. 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