Do you live in the past??? How good it is???
By mr_pearl
@mr_pearl (5018)
India
December 1, 2011 7:10pm CST
My dear fellow myLotters... Have you ever lived in the past? How does it feel? Is it good? Let me explain how I feel about it, let me give my own experience...
I'm 29. I live alone. Have limited no of friends & limitless solitude. MyLot helps me keep it cool. I have never needed to look back in the past because I live with it. My childhood! I'd play with my friends and my brother, we'd have small fights and arguments. We stand for each other too.it was fun, life was easy. I remember it all. It is still alive in my memory..
My first love! We used to stay together all the time. For years, I had a job, which I can't mention and yet I am so proud that I've been there. I made a lot of money out of it. I remember my colleagues, who're no more.. I still live with 'em.
Have you experienced this? How does it feel? Is it good or gloomy? How do we find it out???
Please share... I've begun to doubt my sanity... 
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9 responses
@thatgirl13 (7294)
• South Korea
2 Dec 11
I am living in the past actually and it is not helping me move on in life. I just think about all the things in the past and wish time would go back again. I have seriously lost it i think at times.. I dunno why letting go of the past is so hard for me.
Do you think living in the past is a good thing?
@thatgirl13 (7294)
• South Korea
3 Dec 11
I feel you.. Yeah I think we should stop dwelling in the past and move on with our lives. Good luck to the both of us 
@suspenseful (40193)
• Canada
2 Dec 11
Some people's past are good and there is no bad effect from it, but with some others, things that happen in the past had a negative effect and they are influenced by them. In fact, those things that happened are so burtful that they cannot get over them. That is what I feel.
@mr_pearl (5018)
• India
7 Dec 11
Hi ... Thanks a lot for sharing... I think I have been going through the good and bad times from the past... I enjoy remembering the good moments and I feel awful while remembering the bad ones... :(... And I know I need to stop that... I'll try...
Thank you!!
@dodo19 (47110)
• Beaconsfield, Quebec
2 Dec 11
I find that it can be difficult to live in the past sometimes. Sure, it's nice to do when you have a happy life, filled with pleasant times and memories. But it's not always the case, especially if you have had hard times. Living in the past can certainly present its challenges.
@Sanitary (3968)
• Singapore
2 Dec 11
Yes, i do live in my past as well because they brings me both good and bad memories. Whatever it is, they are all in the past. Right now, i'm living for the future. I don't bother about the present because present is shorter than our future, and past is the longest phrase of life out of all. Everyday, every moment is a past so why need to go so far back to childhood or recent memories right? Stay to your future and u would be much happier.
@joni1215 (394)
• United States
2 Dec 11
Yes, I discovered some time back that
i too was guilty of living in the past.
It just happened and I thought it was
just being haunted but it was me doing
the haunting.
It's not easy to stop doing this. I think
I developed this habit as a child as a way
to escape to another time.
I have practiced remembering the past so
I could hang in to loved ones , hear their
voice, see their face.
And one day I realized that is why my present
is somewhat empty because I am not really
here. So, I now practice being in the moment.
Like I said it's not easy and it does take work
as my mind still floats back. I have to just keep
bringing myself back to now and reflect on all
the good things. And make more of this time.
Because when I was living those times they were
not that great. It's just the loved ones I miss.
@mr_pearl (5018)
• India
3 Dec 11
Hi Joni... You seem to read my thought processes. Yes, this is how I go to the past- to escape, to see n hear people who are not with me. This is how it happens and do whatever I can, it doesn't stop... I need to take control of things now..
Thanks a lot...
@leon923940426 (480)
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2 Dec 11
I know waht your feelings . Long time ago when I break up with my girlfriend , I can not accept that and I had a terrible life during that time . But now , I think I am growing up and I have this as normal . When I break up with some girls again , i will never feel sad and I know that will happen one day and we should have an open mind on it .
So ,my firend ,be srong and you will find a good life there waiting for you .
@Palma138 (18)
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2 Dec 11
The past is both heartwarming and mind wrecking so many good times from the past which surely override the bad but one such as myself can't look back and not see the regrets for all the things that i have done but foremost the things i should have done and all the missed opportunities in life with people or things.
