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By Abeer Sikder, Class of 2014
Abeer Sikder, of Staffordsville, Ky., is a senior McConnell Scholar at the University of Louisville. He is pursuing a major in Economics and minors in Political Science and Finance.
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So often I wish I could go back in time and do things over. I want to start from the beginning, and walk along a path in life knowing how to avoid the mistakes I made the first time around. Why did I have to be wrong? Why couldn’t I have just known the truth in the first place? I always have to remind myself that mistakes are what make experiences worthwhile. Maybe mistakes make life worth it. Maybe they’re the only way for people to achieve their fate and appreciate truth.
I wrote this piece a couple months ago after a movie night with some close friends. The movie we viewed involved going back in time to correct mistakes. (See if you can guess the movie.)
The Cellar Door
This cellar door just opens and closes,
The darkness it enshrines never opposes,
Out escapes the light into the tunnel,
As these new souls form out of the chaotic muddle.
The universe warps space as the stars now shift,
While graves arise and time starts to quit,
The future has foregone a whole new fate,
Because it’s the one right now he so hates.
The view from the future unravels the dark,
In a present so grim of weeping black stars,
Going back to the slumber of a faith redone,
To begin a new way, under a bright holy sun.
The darkness it enshrines never opposes,
Out escapes the light into the tunnel,
As these new souls form out of the chaotic muddle.
The universe warps space as the stars now shift,
While graves arise and time starts to quit,
The future has foregone a whole new fate,
Because it’s the one right now he so hates.
The view from the future unravels the dark,
In a present so grim of weeping black stars,
Going back to the slumber of a faith redone,
To begin a new way, under a bright holy sun.
“There are no mistakes. The events we bring upon ourselves, no matter how unpleasant, are necessary in order to learn what we need to learn; whatever steps we take, they're necessary to reach the places we've chosen to go.” - Richard Bach
Abeer Sikder, of Staffordsville, Ky., is a senior McConnell Scholar at the University of Louisville. He is pursuing a major in Economics and minors in Political Science and Finance.