Carrying around a huge mountain of baggage from your past is certain to limit the potential of your future. Mistakes, regrets, and worries from your past will weigh heavy on your heart and mind. Instead of beginning each day with excitement and enthusiasm, you are reliving all of the negative moments from your past.
However, once you accept and learn from the lessons of your past, that baggage seems to be condensed into something far more manageable and useful. Let go of the pain, regret, and sorrow and only carry the knowledge forward. The lessons learned in your past are the only things that can help you to change your future.
Your succinct posts are so powerful, Kathy, as is this one that makes me think of the “pearl of great price.” I love that biblical story and we all have a story like it in our personal history. Still, we need to be reminded of it from time to time, and this one, today, reminds me once more, to harvest and preserve the lessons without passing on the pain. I also think of the consultant I once knew who said when making a speech or writing an essay: Be brief, be bright, be gone. Thank you, as always, for brightening me day with a message I can carry with me all day long.
Lovely and true advice. The past holds the blueprints of all of our pain, mistakes and regrets. Think of your life as a house you want to build. You already have th blue prints, if you read it, you will know where to put what, what to change, what to keep and what to get rid of. By making all the changes, you then can build the house of your dreams. But all of the above is only possible for those who learn from the mistakes of the past, by reading the blue prints.