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May 20, 2010, 08:31 PM
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I was so sad and upset in the pas and broken into pieces by it. yet sitting here hashing it out for counseling, I find myself wishing I was back there... I don't understand... why would I want to be back there? I'm so happy with what I have. it is so much better than anything in the past
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May 20, 2010, 08:53 PM
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The past, even though often time painful, is a known quantity. The future is a giant unknown, we fear the unknown, and find comfort in the familiar, even if the familiar is painful.
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If we could change ourselves, the tendencies in the world would also change. As a man changes his own nature, so does the attitude of the world change towards him. ... We need not wait to see what others do. Gandhi |
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May 20, 2010, 08:58 PM
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Ditto. But if you stick in the present, that will replace the past which was not good for you.
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May 21, 2010, 07:53 AM
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That makes sense, I guess. I just wish I wasn't stuck between to worlds... It's so exhausting to have your mind and heart spread out across two decades...
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May 21, 2010, 07:54 AM
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I know how you feel. I often think about the past and wish I could go back in time. But I know that will never happen. All we can really do is not dwell in the past and look towards the future.
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May 21, 2010, 08:46 AM
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The past is always glorified for some reason. I hope you are able to work through whatever you need to with your counselor.
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In depression . . . faith in deliverance, in ultimate restoration, is absent. The pain is unrelenting, and what makes the condition intolerable is the...feeling felt as truth...that no remedy will come -- not in a day, an hour, a month, or a minute. . . . It is hopelessness even more than pain that crushes the soul.-William Styron |
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