We live, in part, to offset the impact of our life upon us to this point, at every point along the way. There is a sense in which we never get over having lived up to this point. We carry our past with us all the way. And we do not know who we might have been if it hadn’t been for various aspects of our experience and how we reacted to them. We are impacted for better and/or for worse by some of the things that happened in our life, but not by all of the things that happened. There are propitious events and there are inconsequential events in all of our lives–and how we reacted to them, responded to them, what we did about them made all the difference. And some of them still impact us to this very day. How might we recognize those momentous events, revisit them and revise the impact they had on us even now, even yet, even so? We owe it to ourselves to find out.
Exploring our past can transform our future. Changing our mind about some things can impact all things. Writing about our past, talking about our past, thinking about our past can alter our present and our future. It is a potential great adventure awaiting our attention.
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