Why Your Past Makes A Huge Impact On Your Life Today
There’s a good side and a bad side. You should still use both.
I’ve seen many people who choose to ‘leave the past in the past’, and I will forever believe that this philosophy is wrong.
There’s very good use in learning from the past — Good or bad. Most people will often look at the past as it is something that they’d like to forget, which is why these types of people will never be able to learn to evolve.
If you don’t learn from the past, you can’t live in the present. You don’t expect a toddler to run without learning to walk first. You’ll never be able to conquer what you have no knowledge of experiencing. Forgetting why you’ve succeeded to a certain point in your life will forever be the biggest reason of failure in the future.
Regardless if your old friends, old habits, old addictions, or old decisions have tampered your path, your path is still going and sometimes you’ll have to look back to remember how you got here in the first place.
Otherwise, you’re lost.
The Good, The Bad, And The Ugly:
All of these past experiences will obviously have some good, as well as bad memories; However, it doesn’t mean that these memories are useless.
Throughout your life, you learn many things: Pride, Strength, Honor, Discipline, Patience… But what happens if you forget these things?
If the negativity in your life has helped prosper you into learning the truth, then why should you forget it?
The Good
Having good memories is the healthiest memory you can have. It’s important to look back on situations that pushed you to keep going and staying motivated, inspired, and prompted into finding more good. What you find appealing, interesting, or captivating will always be your mind’s medicine to remember how to stay positive. You need to have the tools that will push you to finding greatness and success. Without the good, you only have the bad.
The Bad:
It’s easier said than done to relive bad memories. I relive them on a daily basis but I wouldn’t be where I am today if I didn’t. What motivates you today could possibly be what you’ve defeated in the past. If you question why you’re still going and why the pasts continues to haunt you, I think I know why.
The bad memories are helping you! Yes, you read that right. Like I said before, you need to have the tools to push you into succeeding. If those tools are the situations that made you stronger, I encourage you to thrive off those situations and demolish any other obstacle that may stand in your way. You have these experiences for a good reason. But it’s useless when all of your hard work and suffering is forgotten. Don’t let your story be for nothing.
Make it count.
The Ugly:
The ugliest memories of the past are usually the good memories that turned into the bad. This will make it truly difficult to question if the past, in and of itself, is really worth reliving.
I’m here to tell you that it is.
Whether you’ve lived the greatest day of your life or the worst day in the history of mankind, it will always your past. Everyone has a story and I believe that everything happens for a reason. Without the story that has molded you into the incredible individual that you are today, you’d be no where. It’s mandatory that you remember both: good and bad, in order to prosper. Your past makes an incredible impact on who you are as a person and without it, you’re back to square one…
Behold your story. Tell your story. Learn from what you’ve survived and continue to live as good of a person today, as you were yesterday — Only to be twice as good tomorrow.
Thanks for reading. — Logan Tucker
