Don't Look Back In Anger

They say the past will come back to haunt us and that hindsight is the mother of all mistresses. I say look backwards and all you do is walk into a lot of things. Welcome back to my thoughts and random babble, its been a while hasn't it? That may in part be to do with me being very busy of late or in part to i have had nothing to get of my chest, either way is probably a good thing.

I will come, uncharacteristically straight to the point, why is it people feel the need to carry their past with them like a crucifix, to be whipped out and quickly assembled so they can nail themselves to it at any given opportunity? We all have a past, some of which we wish to celebrate and some we would rather forget, but it is yesterday and you can't change it so why keep looking at it? At times i am sure we have all looked at times gone by with longing, eager to recapture a moment or relive a day just to experience it again, exactly how it was without change or alteration. I am just as sure we have all yearned to go back to an event and change it completely, rearrange those mistakes we made, rectify the wrongs we have done or have had done to us, but we can do neither so best to keep our past only as a learning curve, only as a reference of what to do and what not to do.

As children we have little past and therefore little regret, or for that matter celebration. As adults we have more things we wish we had done differently & in contrast more things we now feel we did right, even if at the time we were'nt sure. If you can look back and smile at your life then it doesn't always follow you have no regrets, just that you have mastered the art of knowing you cant change it, that you can and probably have learnt from it. Yet i am faced with people who wish to destroy their present for the sake of their past, people who want to carry the pain of yesterday into tomorrow.

I can't understand these people, I can't imagine a life spent carry grudges, dragging the baggage of your teenage years around with you, ruining your life over things you can't change, things that ultimately were out of your control then and remain that way now. Move on with your lives, look forward to the sunrise of a new day not mourn the sunsets you missed last week. If we cancel flights because of terrorists yesterday we let them win, if we mourn a life lost rather than celebrate a life lived we do a disservice to those departed and if you alienate those who love you for mistakes you think they made in your childhood then your going to live a very lonely life, unable to forgive the past, unable to live in the present and unable to look to the future with any hope..... Live in the moment or you'll never be free! You know who you are, your the person who stopped reading at the title unable to face what was coming because your to busy resenting people for whats been.