Does Resolving BS from the Past In the Present Help Your Future?

To be here now, in the present, and work towards the future, sometimes resolving your past is a must.

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Everyone has a past.

Checkered, sordid, amazing, awful — all the above. Nobody who lives today is without a past (save newborns).

Lots of people dwell on the past. Many have a deep desire to return to it. Or rather, to return to a past that never truly existed, save in their unique memory of it. That’s where nostalgia comes in. You remember times that were — save that they never were how you desire to remember them.

What’s more, times that were good for some in the past were terrible for others. Ask anyone from any marginalized group about if the past was somehow better, and I’m fairly certain they’ll tell you all the ways that it most definitely wasn’t.

The biggest problem with the past is that it has passed. It’s done. You can’t go back, return to it, or relive it in any way. Additionally, you can’t undo it, redo it, or otherwise do it over.

Many outright don’t accept this.

It is, however, the truth. The past is behind you, come and gone, and can’t be reclaimed. All you can do with the past is learn from it to move…