Looking backward...but only to move forward

[psluke]

Memory Lane is getting far too congested these days. There are people
hanging around on every corner, striving to preserve a specific part
of yesterday. Then there are the people who zoom up and down as fast
as they can in some desperate attempt to retrieve a remembrance and
extract it without getting sucked in by the scenery. You have now
collected all that this particular path can supply you with. It is
time to stop strolling and to start striding, away from the past and
towards a future that you will never want to forget.

Does this mean it is time for you to start totally focusing on all the wonders currently going on in your life and stop hanging onto the pain and the past?

I don't mean that to sound harsh. This morning I'm not sure how to say that tactfully and I could be way out of line as I haven't been following this paticular thread closely.

But what I have read you have seemed out of sorts while reading the past. I find when I do look back that I can do a little of it without it sucking me into some of those feelings but a lot of it will leave some residual feelings when I come out of it.

Just some thoughts for you to see if they are worth anything to you today.

You have SOOOO many positives going on in your life, but I always get the feeling that you can't let go of the past completely.

I know I am struggling with the same thing. I actually have a lot of positives as well, I would trade them for an R like you have, but for me the path was different and I am learning to be alone.

Please don't be upset with me, I just a lot of times get the feeling that you are still thinking in fix it mode, I do that a lot. But the past can't really be fixed in the present or the future, just learned from and adjustments made so as not to repeat the past.

I really sound pompus and preachy here and that isn't how I meant this at all.