When we deal with ourselves and when we deal with life on an ongoing basis sometimes we struggle with receiving what is meant for us, for our future because of the pain that we have experienced in the past. Some of us choose to let our pasts dictate what we do in the present because we are too afraid to fail in anything again. Doing so affects us greatly as it may make us miss great opportunities to develop relationships with new people, and it may also keep us from going through doors we probably would have seen if we weren't too busy looking backwards.
To leave the past where it belongs, we simply have to let go. Indeed, letting go may be easier said than done, but we must also remember that anything that we sincerely put our minds to can be completed. Be who you are now to help build yourself up to who you want to be in the future. Don't try to move forward in life while looking backward, leave the past behind you. "We are not what has happened to us, we are whom we chose to become"!
