The past... Well. It's an interesting thing. Some people are consumed by it, wishing nothing more for it to come back again. Some people do everything in their power to not have to ever be reminded of it again, seeing it only as a vast valley of regret - an endless field of lost time and lost opportunities.
Then, there are the few and the wise, the individuals who see their past as something not to regret, but to learn and become better from.
They are those I envy. I strive to see through their eyes whenever I think of something that I have done, or something that has happened to me that I am not proud of, that I never want to think of nor repeat. I try to think about what I can get out of those experiences and then apply them in my life in hope of improving my future, but sadly, it does not always work.
I'll leave you with this thought,
"The past is our definition. We may strive, with good reason, to escape it, or to escape what is bad in it, but we will escape it only by adding something better to it." ~Wendell Berry
Let's start this new year together with a hopeful eye to the future, shall we?
Yes, let's.
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