Tag: past

  • Be more than your past

    Be more than your past

    Like they say, every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future. Your past will only ever define your future if you allow it. They also say that the past may be blemished, but the future is still perfect. There is a reality between all this idealism that we can’t escape, and that…

  • The Thief of Yesterday

    Living in the past is often recognized as unfortunate or sad, or at times it is seen as pathetic or weak. More than this, I think it is a sign of ingratitude. Carrying around our burdens that have long since left us simply says that what we have available to us now is irrelevant because…

  • Question – Choices

    seinedoll replied to your post: seinedoll replied to your quote: Our past only… This is exactly what I mean. Perhaps I’m paying for the past with living in perpetual anxiety. Perhaps it will resurface too. Who knows. Either way I’ll pay for it. We always pay for it, one way or another. So it’s hardly…

  • Question – Choices

    seinedoll replied to your quote: Our past only rules our hearts and minds as long… What if the past can resurface at any moment? I know what you mean. It happens to me often. The only time it ever knocks me off balance (so to speak) is when it’s related to an incident that didn’t…

  • Our past only rules our hearts and minds as long as we’re oblivious to the fact that it is in fact the past. CJ

  • Look To This Day!

    Listen to the Exhortation of the Dawn! Look to this Day! For it is Life, the very Life of Life. In its brief course lie all the Verities and Realities of your Existence. The Bliss of Growth, The Glory of Action, The Splendor of Beauty; For Yesterday is but a Dream, And To-morrow is only…

  • The story of that (empty) house

      This house, no, THAT house held many things. In it’s wall grew a tangle of thoughts, emotions, musings wanderings, knotted together with desire, hope, love and courage decaying with anger, misunderstanding, insecurity and indifference This house, no, THAT house was built on a strong yet unsteady foundation of fascination That house (yes, I’ve learnt…