Keeping Past Present

Our past will either delight or distress us, sometimes in equal measure. Regardless, we need our memories.

We need to remember where we have been to better understand where were are and where we are headed.

We all have made decisions we have later regretted. There are things we are desperate to forget. There are also incidents and individuals we are anxious to remember.

Calendar dates assume a certain relevance. Anniversaries keep on occurring. Days have particular and personal meaning.

The passage of time may modify a memory but it will not eliminate it. Our past remains, tucked away in the corners of our mind not for posterity but for our present.

The only power our recollections have is that which we assign to them. We choose whether we make them a blessing or a curse. We learn from what we know and what we know is a collection of memories.

The mind can be a friend or it can be a foe. It can hold us in the past or project us into the future. We get to decide.

In making that decision it pays to keep in mind that the head and the heart are connected. The factual and the emotional are intertwined.

How we react to a memory or an anniversary is very much up to us an individual.