PAST

The past is in its rightful place -- behind us.  

Certainly, let the hills you’ve climbed over and the valleys you’ve walked through be the foundation of your current wisdom and strength.  

But, if you find that all you’re really doing, by looking back, is raking yourself repeatedly over hot coals, or worse, remembering only s’mores and Kumbaya sitting around that pit of hot coals, then please, do something else. 

I’d recommend stoking those coals with the debris of the past into a roaring fire. Toss in those switches you snap off that ancient weeping willow and use to beat yourself with, heave in your worn out vinyl of The Way We Were.  Throw it all into this raging pit.  

Then, as you walk away, feel the delicious warmth of the flames on your back.  

It’s truly okay to walk way from your past.  You’re not leaving anything precious behind because the important stuff, the stuff that really matters, you’ve brought with you to the present. You have what matters most, here, right now.