Let It Go

“One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory.”

Rita Mae Brown

It is difficult to find room in your heart or mind for happiness if it is filled with regrets. In other words; it is hard to think or do things that make you happy if all you can think of is what burdens you from the past.

Do you still clutch on to memories of was or what could have been? Was your heart broken? Did you do the breaking? Where you not trustworthy? Where you too trusting? Did you live through a traumatic experience? Each mistakes, misgivings, wrongdoing, and regret hold so much weight. That is probably why they are so hard to get rid of.

We fear that lifting a heavy burden out of our theoretical back pack might be more painful than we would wish, so we do not. Carrying it seems easier; I mean you’ve already got the momentum built up, right? Stopping to take the time to remove it may ruin what you’ve worked so hard to get.

Not to face it may seem less complicated, but it is not. One burden’s weight may not seem like much but when others are added it may become the straw that breaks you. Our bodies and minds get weary and small things tend to become more like a millstone around the neck if they are not confronted and resolved.

Let it go. Whatever that process may entail for you, just let it go. There is nothing you can do to change the past, so I say take it at face value, learn from it, maybe you’ll want to make recompense for it, and then let it go. Then you’ll be better able focus on the present and your future.