Past and Present Thursday, June 17, 2010 / 10:40 PM
i read this upon cy's tumblr. and it does make some sense. :D
Whatever the past was, it's gone. There is nothing you can do to change anything that has gone before and so you must turn your attention to the here and now. It is hard to resist the allure of dwelling on what has gone before. But if you want to be successful in your life, you have to turn your attention to what is happening for you right now. You might be tempted to dwell on the past because it was awful or because it was wonderful. Either way, you have to leave it behind because the only way to live is in the present.If you're revisiting the past because of regrets, then you need to be clear that you can't go back and undo what you've done. If you hang on to guilt, you're only damaging yourself. We've all made bad decisions that have adversely affected people around us that we professed to love but whom we treated disgracefully. There isn't anything you can do to wipe the slate clean. What you can do is to resolve not to make such bad decisions again. That's all anyone can ask of us - that we acknowledge where we messed up and are trying our hardest not to repeat the pattern.Each second of this present is precious. Don't waste any drops of precious time by spending too much time in that "old room". Don't miss what is happening now because you were too busy looking back, or later you'll be busy looking back at the time and wondering why you wasted it.
