Is your past over, or does it replay it's self over and over?

There are lot of things from my past there are still there, hanging just behind that curtain over there, you can't really see them, or hear them, but late at night, especially when I am under a great deal of stress they will rear their ugly heads and I will relive every ugly minute of the various incidents wondering what I could have done differently to make things different, to be a better person, and sometimes during the day these same things haunt me. So I guess I haven't really been able to move on from the past. I have tried to put them into abeyance.

Time only goes in one direction. And that is forward. There is no point in brooding and lamenting about the past. You cannot change it. The only way is to stand up and take the next step forward and face what ever is being thrown at you, one at a time. I have witness people who like to wallow in the past. And they choose to stay there. Sad. No matter how much one want to help that fellow, the fact is no one can unless he is able to face the fact that he cannot unchanged the past. Till that day comes, he will always be trapped in his little world of the past. Like I always tell people, there is two ways to look at a half glass of milk. Half full or half empty? You decide. The movie Kung Fu Panda, Master Wu Gui puts it the best. "The future is a mystery. The past is history. What you have now is a gift. That is why they call it THE PRESENT" So get your head out of the past and start living the PRESENT so that you have a future to look forward to.

if history keeps on repeating itself then that means tha we have to change something of ourselves and to determine which one to change is to find the common denominator then make a move to change it for the better. just changing the simplest part of one's life will make a great difference in the future. allowing our past to take over means that we do not want to change, it is us who has to change. the way we think , the way we perceive things, the way we do.

I try to mnove on from the past but every time I turn around, it comes right back to haunt me. It isn't just one specific thing. It is several things that have happened in the past. No matter what I do to try to get away from the things that bother me most about the past, it always comes back around in some way, shape, fashion or form.

I have moved on from my past and don't let it affect my present. If I did then I don't think I would be where I am today. I had to make a lot of changes within myself to be able to move on. Sometimes something in my present might spark a memory or glimpse of the past for a small time, but the good thing is, I can brush it away and forget about it and not let it take over my thoughts in the present.

My past is over, but sometimes i've noticed that if you are not careful it will try to creep back up when you least expect it.

my past is over. i was able to move on, survived two break ups... survived being left by your own father... i guess it was my hope that i have a bright future that gave me strength to move on and to forget the bad things in the past and make them a shield so i can go on and live my life as normal as possible.

To a degree, I think our past always affects our future. We frame our opinions and our actions, many times, by what we have done - or what has been done to us - throughout our lives. I know that, when I met my husband, we had some bumps getting over a person from HIS past who had caused him much trouble (including financial) and, so often, it was me that wound up hurt. We did progress well from that situation but I know I will never completely "move on." He asks me sometimes if I will ever "let it go" and I tell him, very honestly, "probably not." I've been able to forgive but not forget... and, you know, sometimes that isn't ALWAYS bad. There are lessons to be learned from every situation and I learned from that too... mainly about myself.

Well, for many people, when the past has past, they move on. There is no point in brooding over the past and keep going on and on and on over it. What is happened and done cannot be reversed. Instead of reliving it all the time, learn from it and move on. But to some, it is not the case. They will keep harping on and on and on about the past, like some broken record. They never tire of repeating the same tune over and over again. I wonder, what do these people stand or hope to gain from living in the past? Why don't they just let it go and move on? The future is bright and uncharted. Why look back on the old and the bad when the new and the good could be looked forward to? Sigh... people are just full of paradoxes.

So many things have happened to me in my past, that if I was not able to move on from them I would probably be in a funny farm by now. I have always been good at filing things away in my mind, they have been so far buried that most of the time I do not remember them unless something happens to jog my memory. Since I have joined here a lot of discussions have jogged my memory and I find myself remembering a lot of things that I had forgotten about. Sometimes I find these memories incredibly sad, and sometimes I get angry, but then I look at how far I have come and how far I have yet to go and I put them back in the file they escaped from. Because to let those memories over take my future means that all those people who caused them in the first place, have won. And that is not going to happen.

My past almost ruin my life. There are things that i can see and remind me of my past. Its not easy to forget like it was easy to forgive but hard to forget. What did i do to move on. It was all simply because of my family and my daughter.