Loving Each Day

If you want success in your life, it's time to recognize that you cannot change the past. This isn't just 20 years ago; you can't even change what happened 20 seconds ago. You can't change things so your mother or father would have loved you the way you may have wanted them to. You can't change things in the past so you would have expressed love the way you might have wanted to. What a waste of time it is to put your energy into something that is really a bucket of ashes. The past is dead. Why continue to put energy into a ghost? The best you can do with the past is to use it as a reference point, like a scientist does with an experiment. If you need to look at it, do so with awareness. Without emotional content, see what happened; see it for information, not for blame or judgment. There may also come a time when you have no need even to look at the past. You can simply let it go immediately, so you have all your energy present for living in the present.