The story of your
past doesn't have to become the story of your life.
The moment you
decide that you have had enough of everything, enough of stress and anxiety,
enough of anger and resentment, enough of struggle, lack, pain and poverty,
enough of tears, heartbreaks, self-destructive thoughts, behaviors and
relationships and enough of all that is negative and toxic, that will be the
moment you will finally be ready to take charge of your life and take the
necessary steps toward a better and happier life.
Your past doesn't
have to equal your future, unless you want it to.
If you cling to the
past and keep on using it as an excuse for not moving on with your life, then
yes, your future will be similar to your past.
We cling to the past
because the past gives us a sense of identity; it makes us who we are, or at
least that's what we think. Because we
haven't yet learned how to be present and engaged in our day-to-day lives, we continue
to craft our lives from a place of limitations -- the past -- instead of doing
it from a place of infinite choices and possibilities -- the present
moment.
The moment you
become attached to how things should be, how people and life should treat you
and how your happiness should be packaged and delivered your way, you create a
lot of resistance and unhappiness in your life.
Don't let your mind
trick you into thinking that forgiveness is an act of weakness.
When you get your
sense of identity from your past hurts, your wounds and your struggles, it can
be quite impossible to acknowledge the fact that maybe you are using what
happened in the past as an excuse for why you are not living a happier and more
meaningful life in the present.
Whenever you choose
to use all kinds of excuses for why you can't be, do or have something, you are
in fact moving away form your true power, disconnecting from your true self and
building a false identity for yourself.
Relationships aren't
about making an unhappy person happy nor are they about making an unloved
person feel loved. Relationships are
about sharing the love and happiness that is already present within you with
each other, growing, improving and evolving together.
The life you are now
living is the result of all the thoughts you have thought up until this
moment.
Even though things
might not always go the way we want them to go, and even though life might not
always give us the experiences we want to have, it doesn't mean that life isn't
offering us the experiences we need to
have -- the experiences that are beneficial for the evolution of our
consciousness, the growth of our own souls and the expansion of our whole
beings.
