Living in the Past

So just after I posted about the account trouble, I noticed I had emailed the blogs to myself. So here is the next part.

Living in the Past

While many people live in tomorrow, many people live in yesterday. These people are people of self criticism and regret. These people cannot live today because they are stuck and lost in yesterday. They reflect too much on yesterday and what they have done; what they should have done.

Yesterday is gone. Yesterday can never be changed. It is completely useless to worry about what you have done and what you haven’t done; wishing you could change how you chose to do things. While living in yesterday, we cannot experience today. We cannot continue to live our lives because we are being held down by yesterday. We are being tied to yesterday. Today becomes nothing and we achieve nothing. Living in yesterday is like living in tomorrow. You will never achieve anything.

Yesterday people need to live a bit more in tomorrow. Past is past, and all we can do about it is learn from it. While worrying about what you should or shouldn’t have done, change that into thinking of what you will or won’t do in the future. If you are regretting saying something stupid, remember to think more before you talk. If you wish you would have done something, do it now. If an opportunity has walked out the door, go chase it; fight for it. If you have done something bad, go make things right.

Yesterday is out of reach. What’s done is done. We cannot change it. All we can do is learn for the future and try to fix things today. Fretting yesterday and wishing you can change it will keep you stuck. Today you will feel miserable. You will miss out on today until it becomes yesterday, then you will be fretting about another yesterday. It is another vicious cycle.