In life, there are two choices: to move forward or to stagnate. If you want to move forward, you have to turn your back from the past and face your present and future with your eyes wide open. You do not leave your other foot stuck in the past. If you do you are immobilized and your failures will hold you back. You are left to cope with “what ifs”, “should haves” and a pile of regrets. Nothing changes and when you feel this way, you start to believe that nothing will change.
If you sincerely want to change, you drop the anger, the pain, the disappointments and the sad experiences behind you. It is hard to leave the past. It is difficult to forgive and forget the people who may have hurt you, but you have to do for your own peace of mind. If you truly want to be free, you mentally close the door of the past firmly behind you and open another door to freedom.
When you leave your past behind, you don’t carry over into your present life a mental chart of the things or actions other people did to you. You do not spend three hours a day wringing your hands and trying to understand why unfortunate incident happened. You do not moan over the unfair judgment passed to you. What you do, if you want to get positively even, is to make your life so successful that your enemies will wonder how you recovered so fast! As one writer says, "Living well is the best revenge."
Our life is determined by the choices we make. We make or break our lives. Sometimes we come out unscathed. Usually, we don’t. Now, it’s up to mend our torn selves and put them back into pieces. Only when this is done can we say that we are free from the negative, misleading past.
“LIFE CAN ONLY BE UNDERSTOOD BACKWARD, BUT IT MUST BE LIVED FORWARD.”
~ i found this online a long time ago...it's very inspiring and worth reflecting on...i hope it will give you some nuggets of wisdom...~
