I am the type of person who is constantly dwelling on the past. I think about past decisions I've made and how I would change the way I went about certain situations. I let these thoughts consume my head. I create hypothetical scenarios of what my life would be like now if I would have done things differently. Consistently doing this can be exhausting. It will drain you mentally and emotionally. You begin to question your very being and why the things you do are never good enough.

We as humans have a tendency to think much lower of ourselves than others think of us. We second guess how to go about a conversation or how to fix a problem every day. We are afraid of failure and letting people down. Instead of celebrating our success, we tend to dwell on the failures of our past. Whether that be not getting the grade you wanted, not winning the game, losing a relationship, or not getting the job, we let it sit in the back of our mind and consume every part of us.

I am guilty of this very thing. I sit and ponder every situation that I cannot fix or figure out with the snap of my fingers. I let a person, a class, a job, or a sport, grasp every brain cell I have with a tight hold, so tight I don't have the ability to think of anything else until I have the answer. I become tethered to my bed, listening to music that I hope will give me my desired answers. Why search for answers to a problem that you can no longer fix? In order to enjoy the pleasures of life, we have to stop this. We need to allow our past to motivate us and not paralyze our ability to achieve greater things.

President Lyndon B Johnson once said, "Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose." We have the ability to wake up every single day and choose how we want to live.

Tomorrow is always a new day. Find your happiness, it's out there somewhere waiting to change your life, you just have to take the time to find it. Live for tomorrow, live for your own happiness. The best thing about tomorrow is that you get a chance to start over. You get the chance to achieve new things, to meet new people, to try new food, to fall in love, and to work harder than you did the day before. Why focus on the mistakes of your past when you have the potential to achieve bigger and better things tomorrow?

Stop chasing after the distant relationships in your past that are long gone. Stop questioning if the decision you made two weeks ago was right. Growth means choosing happiness over history and never looking back.