Every once in a while we find ourselves in a situation where we're looking back at our past relationships and wishing one of them had worked out. We reminisce of the good times we had, and irrespective of how much we've moved on since then and how many relationships we've had, we do feel a twinge of sadness that our relationship with that particular person didn't work out. It's inevitable, slipping into the past, every once in a while. After all, our memories aren't erasable!
I got a text from a friend that said "The reason we hold on to our memories is because they're the only things that don't change when everything around us changes". And I think it's okay to slip back into time, just as long as we know when to snap out of it! It's therapeutic in that we're facing the events that happened to us and dealing with them, instead of suppressing them until they well up and destroy us!
What's important to remember is that the past will not come back to us. The present is what we need to deal with, and the future is what we must work towards. Once
we realize and accept this, it's easier to slip back into our memories from time to time, embrace them, and get on with life.
2 comments:
Odd it takes so long to figure that out though. I guess memories like bits of paper crumble after awhile and all you have left is the vague collection of something that used to occupy that place…sort of like a brown scrap of paper that’s floated off after the original has disintegrated. Its notw 'The memory of a memory!'
You have to be far removed from the situation to be able to dissociate yourself from its memory. A LOT of water needs to have flown under the bridge...something only time can do!
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