Moving Forward

Time is an element that we consider to have influence on many of our affairs. So 2012 is here and it must be time to be moving forward and that means letting go of some memories that made us anxious in the past. This is not easy though, but it is really necessary.

In retrospect, the faults and follies we've experienced are products of our very own choices and people of course are involved in these. Should we then forget the people who caused those actions that hurt us? That perhaps is the only means that we can free our selves from its haunting anxiety.

We may have met people whom we thought were best for us, but consequently we realized that they are not what we thought they were capable of. That they had motives we were not able to understand in the times we felt we're happy with them. Then suddenly, right in our very eyes we get to know that all is but a lie.

People like these should be left behind in order for us to move forward. Yet, it is not easy, because a simple of thought of them pools a ripple of memories, sweet and incessant alike. How then do we erase such bad memories of our past? How is casting off our worries to the waters possible?

Detachment is the primary thing we have to do. That is to objectify the past we had with those people and the memories that go with them. Detachment is extrarational, that we had to treat the experiences we had with those people without our emotional attachment, from this moment on. We can do this by considering the past as something we had to go through so that we learn in the events that unfolded. More importantly, we can not let the past determine our future if we are to move forward.

The past year may have brought us both good and bad memories. Whichever we hold unto could affect our present way of thinking. We need to fill our mrind with good thoughts if we want to act positively. That means we have to find the right anchors to ponder about in retrospect and in our introspections of how we did in the past. That also means letting go of fond memories of people who hurt us. In such way we are allowing ourselves to have the right dispositions to move forward.

Past is past, now is the time to be moving forward.