Letting Go of Past Mistakes
How to stop letting your past define your future and find peace with who you are today.
I remember one night I couldn't sleep. You know those moments when your mind decides 3 AM is the perfect time to replay every embarrassing thing you've ever done? Well, I was caught in one of those spirals.
It started with a simple Facebook memory that popped up earlier that day, a photo from five years ago. There I was, surrounded by friends at what should have been a celebration, but all I could see was the person I used to be. The one who would thoughtlessly hurt people with careless words. The one who was always ready with a cruel joke at someone else's expense. The one who pushed away people who genuinely cared, simply because I was too wrapped up in my own ego to see what mattered.
Do you know that feeling? When memories of your past mistakes suddenly flood in, making your stomach twist and your mind race with "what ifs" and "if onlys"? When you lie there thinking about all the times you let people down, all the moments you wish you could take back, all the words you wish you could unsay?
It's like carrying around a heavy backpack filled with every mistake you've ever made, and sometimes, something as simple as an old photo makes you open that backpack and examine every single stone inside.
"The things you think about determine the quality of your mind. Your soul takes on the color of your thoughts." - Marcus Aurelius
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