PAST AND OUR PRESENT SELF

LET’S PLAY A GAME

Close your eyes and take yourself back to a moment when you felt the most joyful, the happiest, or the most peaceful. What memories from your life come to mind?

If I asked you to close your eyes and imagine yourself embracing someone you love, who would that person (or people) be?

Now, close your eyes and recall a moment when you felt like the most exhausted, saddest, or most sorrowful person in the world. Which memories from your life would those be?

If you could take a journey back through your past, is there an event or a period in your life that you would want to change? If so, what would you do differently today?

One of our biggest mistakes is evaluating our past self with the awareness we have today. But weren’t all those choices made with the understanding, level of awareness, life experience, belief systems, and mindset we had back then? Do we sometimes forget this?

Perhaps we made choices in life that we now consider mistakes. Sometimes, we made them without knowing they were wrong at the time—or maybe, deep down, we knew. But what about everything we learned from those so-called wrong choices? The wisdom we gained, the lessons that shaped us—would you still want to change your past, knowing what those experiences have contributed to your being? Would you truly be willing to give up everything those experiences have taught you and brought into your life?

We cannot change the past.

But it is through the experiences and lessons we have gathered from it that we can move forward toward a better version of ourselves and build our future.

The true gift of our past is in what we learn from it and how we grow.