We've heard it said that we have to let go of our past in order to move forward. I agree with that... to an extent.
We can let the events of our past hold us or help us.
When we allow ourselves to see only the negatives of the past and we let them
turn into bitterness and resentment, we are letting the past hold us. We are letting it keep us from the blessings of the future and the fulfillment we could be experiencing if we had used our pasts correctly.
However, when we learn from our past experiences and let them show us what we are lacking or what we need to change, we leverage our pasts and use them for our good.
We can take the positive things about our past selves, or the things we learned in our past and use them to complete who we are today.
For example, when I was a young adult, I was confident and laid back mixed with a bit of arrogance and anger.
I can take my confident coolness and combine it with my growing spirituality to be a well rounded person - confident in my abilities, trusting in God for all that I need, and worried about nothing.
Of course, I would leave the arrogance and anger in the past.
We can learn from our past to help us move forward.
We can take the lessons we learned from our failures and use them to help us succeed in the next attempt. We can take the skills we picked up along the way and use them to help us perform better. We just have to remember to seek out the positives - the silver linings - in each situation.
We have to remember to let go of the hurtful things from our past and not let them wound our spirits.
This will allow us to love again after being hurt. To try again after closing that business. And to live again after losing someone we loved.
Yes, we should let go of the past... let go of the things that don't serve us and keep us bound and scared to move forward.
But we should leverage those things of the past that can help us to be stronger today and in the future. We can learn from them and use them to make us complete.
With wisdom, we can use our past. Use it to help us have a better tomorrow.
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