Why is living in the past such a bad thing. If your past is a good time from which you can remind your self of your own greatness, would you not find strength in it. I would thing the only people that that think living in the past is bad having nothing in their past to be proud of.
I have done many great things in my past that I am very proud of, in fact many of these things remind me that I am capable of better than I am today and inspire me to continue forward. I can remember how sucessful I was at something and remember the amazement I felt at my own ability to make a difference.
It occurs to me that who you were should be the greatest inspiration for who you should be.
I was once I starried eyed optomist that fought the cause of right and rightousness because I belived. I believed that equality would come as people were shown that all poeple were equal. I believed that everyone would be an environmentalist when they saw how important the environment was to the health and longevity of the human race. I believed that education would be held as the primary objective of all, buddism says that enlightenment is the path.
These are the things of my past. Are these such a bad thing to live for.
I was once a 36, to 34 inch waist. Is it such a bad thing to want to be that again?
Instead of worring about comparing the way you are to your past why do we not simply ask if we are living to a more nobel, prosperours, and healthy future.
To live in the past one would still have the accuired wisdom through the present, the enlightenment of which shines on the path of the future.
The achievements and failures of my past have provided the light that makes my future all the more visible.
