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Move Past Yesterday
Whether it was good or bad, yesterday has come and gone.
When I write about yesterday, I’m not necessarily referring to the day before today. Yesterday, in this context, is mostly referring to the past.
Many people get stuck in their lives because of the past. Things great and small, personal and impersonal hold them back. Some yearn for a return to yesterday — while others would like nothing better than to recreate the past the same in the future.
There is an absolute truth here that we need to recognize and acknowledge.
The past has passed. Yesterday is gone. You cannot go back, return to it, redo it, or recreate it as it was.
When people neither recognize nor acknowledge this truth, stagnation and worse can occur.
For example — rather than the COVID-19 pandemic being largely over, the Delta variant is returning us to mask-wearing and more necessarily severe indoor restrictions.
So many people were in a rush to return to how life was pre-pandemic that they neglected that that was impossible. Of course, it doesn’t help that all sorts of outside influencers have been selling a “return to normal” in one form or another.
