Past

I have always had problem with the past - because I cannot change it… So many times we have thought, “In a different life, this would have been possible, we would have then had a different present, and maybe even a different future.” So why don’t we? Because we are tied by our past and to our past.


Now, I know that past is not real…that it is just a memory, a story…but then why I do not feel that I have the power to change this story?
We do not have the authority/capacity/power to alter what has already happened. But why do we need it? We need it because we feel we are possessed by it, owned even. 


I bet we all feel helpless in face of our past/pasts - if only this has not happened, that had taken place instead - and so we keep looking back, trying to exorcise shadows that do not exist, but seem oh-so-real.


All that I have understood is that I may not be able to erase or disown my past (anyway it is not possible to do so), but I can certainly drop my attachment to it.


I can choose to not be bound by it.


I can choose to not be affected by it.


You can choose it to be so too.


Today.


Now.


This very moment.


Don’t wait anymore.