People go through different situations everyday. Either a breakup or having bad day at office. Maybe getting a ticket for overspeeding. Sometimes holding a grudge against someone who said something in the past or broke your heart. Someone was bitter to you without any reason.
What happened yesterday is already over. It's not in our control to change it anymore. We can feel sad about it, talk about it, be angry about it; but for how long?
I am guilty of carrying things that happened to me years ago; a teacher called me obese infront of the whole class over 10 years back. Someone didnt invite me to their party few years back. Someone was rude to me. I have been carrying this baggage with me over years. A year ago a person I acknowledged as my friend used me for school resources only.
If I start listing and if you start listing; we could keep going on and on. This would make the time pass but was that time that passed worth it. What happened 10-20 years back is as same as a dead body. Digging it back up and dwelling into it over and over again as I drown in self-pity. Is it worth it? How is it making me a better person. How is it carving my future as a worthwhile human?
Today I write here and declare that from now I will NOT talk about things that went wrong in past as an complaint but as a lesson. I will NOT look back at what went wrong and regret and feel pity. I will NOT try to justify, talk about and explain of things that happened 10 years or 10 days back that may have hurt me in some way. That was the past and I do not have the power to change it.
Even if I shy away from understanding it I will not waste my energy looking back when I can project my same zeal towards my present and future. Becoming a better person than I was yesterday.
As Joel Osteen said,"have a funeral for what went wrong in the past. Bury it. If you dig up a dead body, it will stink and make your life and life of people around you unpleasant.
Drop it, Leave it and Let it Go"!!
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