Let go of the past

This goes hand in hand with forgiving those who have wronged me. I would like to forgive those who wronged me and let it go. I would also like to forgive myself for all of the mistakes I have made in my life. I will forgive myself for those things, and I will not allow myself to feel any more shame for them.

I guess I’ll find out when I get there:)

It seems I am cursed with an excellent memory for past injustices and embellish good memories with a glowing light that was not, in fact, ever there when the events actually occurred. Either way, these trips down memory lane do not contribute to my happiness and well-being—either I’m reopening old wounds or painting the past in an artificial light that makes the present seem dimmer by comparison. I am working on focusing on the present, noticing what it is I have right now to be grateful for (and there really is a lot), and trying to revisit the past only in the service of forgiving or making amends.

I think I had a lot of resentment in the past, for my parents, my extended family, my friends and maybe even myself. I no longer feel resentment.

My parents did the best that they could in difficult situations. My extended family were insensitive but they just were being themselves and they didn’t realise I was sensitive. My friends were just caught up in their own lives and I shouldn’t have been demanding towards them, I had to learn how to rely on myself.

In hindsight, I had low self-esteem and I was seeking approval from all these people in my life and then I got upset when I was not getting it. Even if they had given me approval and praise, it would not have been enough – because you need to accept yourself first and foremost. I have accepted myself to a large extent now and am working to improve those areas that I don’t like.

I feel like I don’t have a problem with the past anymore – it has made me who I am and I’m okay with who I am, so I’m okay with the past and there you have it folks, I think I am done here.

week. I keep seeing how emotionally tied I am to people and situations from my past….

This one is gonna take a while!

I always say the past is the past, leave it alone and live for today. Yet, I must be a hypocrite because I still let the past bother me at times and I dwell on certain issues with it. Like I was cleaning out all my documents and pictures from my pc today and I find pictures of me and my exbf and old friends and it just got to me. I got angry cause of the one old friend who stabbed me in the back and of how the exbf’s treated me. Its the past for a reason… let it go. ugh. I’m working on that. As for those pictures – GONE! They were deleted.

im really expecting that the day will come that i will truly let go of my painful memories of the past. im trying though its hard.many things had changed, many time, sacrifices, love, expectations had been wasted. ... yesterday i saw my ex on the net,suddenly i felt this pain on my heart again.then i said to myself that its time to let go totaly. i wanted this to happen several times,& thought i did. maybe the key is to re-focus myself to let go of him & hold on to the blessings that will come on my life.to expect that new and greater things will flow upon me.im tired of this pain, bitterness, & sadness inside of me. may peace, true love, joy, healing & freedom be upon me.

Not letting go of the past has affected my present and i know it. I must let go to secure and protect my future

again, by decluttering and getting rid of some items that my family gave to me after a loved one died. they thought I would like the items, and I did keep them for the past 5 years, for sentimental reasons. Today I realized they were just sitting in storage, with no love and nowhere to go, because they are not the kinds of things I would decorate with. I just kept them to hold on, after the loved one died.

I decided to gift them to Goodwill, because I know/hope someone will want and appreciate them and display them with love. I feel this is more honorable to do, in memory of said loved one.

In a physical way: I let go of more items that are linked to memories for me, but that I did not use. they literally did nothing but clutter my spare room/office. I almost took a few things back a few times, but I didn’t, in the end.