The past can sometimes be over powering, we can learn so much from it and yet, in otherways it will always hold us back. Like a safety net trying to protect us from those few select memories.
People seem to be obsessed with the past, I remember not wanting to learn about History at school because I could not see why anyone could be interested in things that had already happened. Why not look forward and live for the future, but in time you learn that you cannot have one without the other. We can not progress in a positive way without learning from our mistakes of the past.
I've tried to keep a diary many times, imagining how interesting it would be to look back at my life in "the future" and re-live those past feelings, making you laugh and cry. Yet I can never manage to stick to it, maybe because I can be extremely lazy, or perhaps it is because sometimes I am living life right now. It can hurt to bring up the past, maybe it would be nice to leave certain chapters out.
I know that past experiences have made me a better person, but when do those memories leave us. When can we truly let go of it all and live in the moment. How can we move forward, if we are always looking back?
