Philosophy of the Week V
What happened in the past will only affect you as much as you let it.
Calister Again:
Mistakes are good. You can learn from them. But sometimes we get these people who can’t seem to get over the mistakes. They stare them down as if the mistake is a car in the rear view mirror who is trailing them. Or a foreboding homework assignment. One or the other. But the point is that if you let the constant thinking of ‘oh I shouldn’t have done that’ continue, it won’t help. Learn from your mistakes and get over them.
I disagree with that almost entirely- most of my past haunts me, and there is absolutely nothing I can do about. Their are constant reminders, and people who bring things up all the time and the memory is still there. To say it doesn’t affect you is lying because you know it does, and every time something similar happens you shut down. How do you have control of any of those feelings? You don’t. So I disagree with this; you have no control over the way your past affects you.