Tuesday 11 January 2011 - Past that

I wonder why the past can have such an iron hold on us sometimes?

I mean sure, you need to have a past to learn and grow from, discover the good and the bad things in life, and why, when someone says the stove plate is hot, you don't HAVE to test it!

Isn't it amazing how we can sit and obsess over things that happened so long ago that we have to ignore the dinosaur in the picture to remember it all?

And why is it seldom good stuff that people obsess over? (Well besides guys who were once quarter backs and remember that big saving throw they did in 1911, man the crowd went wild! We know dad,we know!!)

In general though we seem to like to pick and prod at sore parts of our past like a kid's tongue at toothache. Ouch. lets do that again. Ouch! maybe this time it wont hurt. OUCH!!

I think we need to make peace with our pasts. Learn what we have to learn from them, realize that we all make mistakes, some of us more spectacular ones then others, and then take that memory, put it back in the recesses of our brains and get on with the present and the future! (Who are also very demanding of your time, I swear they're all like needy little kids! Future stop day-dreaming! Past stop picking on Present already!!)