The past is behind you.
Its staying right where its always been.
You cant recreate it or mold it into something it was never meant to be.
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The future youre traveling toward is so much more important than any past experience youve ever left behind.
Its comfortable, easy.
We hear a song on the radio that takes us back.
We catch a glimpse of someone with the same profile as someone we once knew, even loved.
Their name comes up in conversation randomly.
We peek into their lives via social media.
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We realize we miss them, those times, all of the things that used to encompass us.
The past creeps up on us and its so easy to get caught up in that nostalgia.
You start to thinkwhat if, why, my fault.
You start to believe that maybe things could have been different, that maybe they still could be.
That perhaps its not too late to go back.
The truth is nostalgia is sneaky, that it lies.
This is a part of growing up, the letting go.
This is why we grow upwards rather than down, lifting further from the ground instead of towards it.
Growing up is even about taking responsibility for those parts of our pasts we ourselves sabotaged.
The people we hurt and the wrongs we committed, unknowingly or not.
Its about bundling up those broken pieces and burying them in the ground.
Its walking away from that plot of unmarked land.
Growing up, moving on, and the like doesnt mean we forget entirely.
It just means we forgive.
That we keep moving.
Its discovering that we often times look back at the past through rose-colored lenses.
And even as the years continue to pass, we still want to protect ourselves.
We want the things that didnt go as planned to have another chance.
But its so important to just let it go.
The past is behind you.
Its staying right where its always been.
You cant recreate it or mold it into something it was never meant to be.
The future youre traveling toward is so much more important than any past experience youve ever left behind.
There is no promise in walking backward, no opportunity in what is already finished.
So do yourself a favor.Let go.Embrace the act of moving on.
There will be growing pains in this, just as there are in everything else in this life.
