The past is dangerous. It is dangerous because I always find myself wishing that things went differently. This is why I often long to rewind the time, so that I can relive a moment and give it the appreciation that it deserved, the appreciation that I failed to show it. I reflect upon the mistakes I’ve made and how I wish I could go back and fix them. The time I spent worrying about things that don’t matter to me now. And how I thought they would ruin my life and that I would never recover. And how none of that was true.
The past is dangerous. It is dangerous because I tend to reflect on the past as being better than it actually was. It is dangerous because it lingers with me in the form of nostalgic memories. I spend too much time thinking about the things in my life that I used to love and how I am so sad that they changed. I miss the people and things in my life that used to be such a big part of who I am. I allow these things to control my emotions because of my inability to accept change. What I have realized is that there has never been a time in my life where something changed and nothing good came out of it. There has always been some kind of positive outcome from an unexpected or unwanted plot twist in life.
The past is dangerous, but there are ways that we can deal with it if we simply do not fear it. The past is not as scary as it is sometimes made out to be. Though we are not always proud of things that happened in our past, we need to understand that the experiences we have make us who we are. I am the woman I am today because of what I have done and what has happened to me in my life. I have to admit to myself that if it wasn’t for everything that life has thrown at me, I would not be exactly who I am today. And because of this, I am not afraid of even the darkest parts of my past.
The past is dangerous. It is dangerous because it has the ability to take power over our lives and keep us from moving forward. I am telling you that you do not have to let the experiences of your past dictate who you are now or who you will be tomorrow. The present becomes the past as time goes on and it is something that cannot be stopped. We will experience life and our memories will stay with us. We will have feelings of regret and longing once again but we may understand that we cannot change what has already happened. What we can do is act as capable beings, learning from the past, which does not define us but drives us, using it to appreciate who we are and who we will become.
