Many a time we loose focus from the real thing of life, captivated in a prison cell of our own work, with a diminished view, seeing and believing the lies we told ourselves, being obsessed in believing that we have no hope or solution to the situation we are in. This feeling cribs growth and leads us to believe in mediocre gains. In such a condition we see our past glory and count them as "the time of our life" and our past failures which may or may not have led us to the situation we are in as "the opportunities i missed". We fail to see that there is a deeper meaning and a more deeper purpose in we being in the situation we are in. Now you may call this as a phase in life but doesn't such phase repeat it self, each time scaring the wound it caused the last time we went through such a phase? Paul, the author of 13 letters that influenced Bible, felt this same. But this thought did not hinder him from the work he set to do. Paul says in the letter to the pe...
....giving up all that inferior stuff so I could know Christ personally