Do You Have a Hard Time Letting Go of Past Mistakes and Regrets?
Do you ever wish that you could take a big magic eraser and remove some of the choices you have made in life? The eraser would remove those bad decisions, mistakes, regrets and allow a redo. Unfortunately, those types of erasers do not exist. If they did they would fly off the shelves and never be in stock because someone would always be looking for one. They would also probably never go on sale. Although we cannot go back to the past physically, a lot of times we can allow our minds to be stuck there.
Everyone has made mistakes and bad choices. Regret is something else isn’t it? You can’t change the past and go back and undue what is already done. Do you ever think to yourself what if I would have done this instead? What if I would have done that? It could be a dream that fell to the wayside or a damaged relationship with a loved one that never got repaired. Maybe it’s an opportunity you let slip through your hands. Whatever the regrets are, allowing yourself to wallow in the shoulda coulda woulda’s can cause you to sink further and further into the mental lake of the past.
If you keep this mindset you are not allowing yourself to be present for today. The good news is that your past does not define you. You have a choice daily to decide to be better than the day before. In order to fully enjoy the blessings God has for your life, you can’t carry that heavy load of past mistakes and regrets. It’s time to put them down and leave them behind. The only thing you should bring from them is lessons learned. All you can do is strive to be better, do better, and bring those jewels called lessons learned along with you. Look ahead to a brighter future and keep moving forward.
