When you think about your past, what memories come to play in your mind?? Do the good memories come up, or do the bad memories of events that happened in your past, overshadow the good??
From personal experience and self reflection, a lot of the memories that came in my mind were not very good one’s. Things I have done to people in my younger years and people I have hurt seem to have always riddled my mind and take control of my brain. Anytime I thought about my past, I was just sticking pins in myself and constantly hurting myself emotionally, and not even knowing it. I could not grow in an emotional sense, and it seemed as though I was stuck in a vacuous container that was sucking the life out of me. My past had a foothold on the progress and path of my future life and what I really needed to do in life. I just needed to let go of the pains of yesterday so I can enjoy life today, and all the gifts that come along with it…
Does this sound familiar to you??
Are you still dwelling on yesterday and letting the past hurt you???
Are you going to let things that are out of your control take over your mind and reek havoc on your emotions?
I say not anymore!! I have learned that the past is just that, the past!!!! Anything I did in the past can no longer haunt me emotionally. It is, like a lot of things that used to bother me that do not anymore, out of my control. What I can not control or do anything about can not, and will not, bother me any longer. I have given many apologies to people and every time I have said I was sorry to people, I have let that piece of my life go with it.
Am I going to think about them? Sure!! I am not naive to that fact, but to dwell on it and live there is not going to happen anymore. The pains of the past are behind me and I need to march forward.
So tell me this, do things in your past still linger in your mind?? If so, what are you doing about it? Are you going to let them keep hurting you, or are you going to take control of them, fix them, and move on?
It is time to let go of the past things that bind you to your past. I have had many people ask me how to let go of things that they did in their past, and also ask how to let go of things that happened “TO” them. My answer to those questions are very simple. It is an old cliche’ that has proved itself very wise to me in my recent years.It is “The past, is the past”. Let it go, no matter how big it is or how small it is. You can not un-scramble eggs so just move on.
There are three times in one’s life…..The past, the present, and the future…..Nobody, or all the money in the world can not change yesterday, but you sure can change what is ahead of you by living in the present.
So leave your past behind you, and forge your way into a promise filled, faith filled future…..
Rich Barnes