It will always be helpful to look back at the past, but not to overthink it.
Thinking about the past in excess is irrelevant in the present and the future. Taking inventory of the past is a helpful reminder of one’s cardinal points. It provides 20/20 vision on the directions one has taken and the experiences they’ve had. All of this information helps one acutely understand the moves that work best for them personally. But the point of diminishing returns is spending anything more than the minimum amount of time required to acount for past actions and consequences.
There is not one human being on this planet who hasn’t experienced a major challenge, loss, feelings of despondence, and/or feelings of hope. Lingering in the past, however, only detracts one from where they are now and where they want to be.
In order to find personal order, one must align with the past based on observance (not thought), continuous fortitude (not mindless analysis), and — most important — understanding one’s Behavioral RNA.
Understanding means to ask not just why things have happened the way they’ve happened but why not? How did it alter your path? And are you in the right direction now? When it comes to experiencing life to its fullest, the key to the past is to revisit it based on personal assessment — never general comparison.
What is a past memory that you unconsciously ruminate on?
