Today's 100 words:
While going through some old emails yesterday, I found several messages my ex-husband sent me during the months before our divorce. Rereading them brought back a lot of difficult memories that I thought I'd hidden away in some back corner of my mind or had at least pushed aside for enough time that I could begin to forget. But the emotions--pain, anger, resentment--my ex expressed brought me right back to those moments, right back to those days our life together broke apart. I guess the pain never really dulls, no matter what good things life brings afterward.
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Tuesday, March 13, 2012
Saturday, November 19, 2011
Letting go
This morning's 100 words:
If I spend my life looking back at the past, dredging up regrets from long ago, exhuming them from the memory graves they deserve to stay buried in, then I'll miss the present, the things of today--of this moment--that won't be allowed to become memories of their own because I'll be too busy focusing on the yesterdays and the should-have-beens and the why-didn't-Is to even see the people in front of me, too destroyed by the long ago to notice the now. To keep the present, I have to let go of the past.
If I spend my life looking back at the past, dredging up regrets from long ago, exhuming them from the memory graves they deserve to stay buried in, then I'll miss the present, the things of today--of this moment--that won't be allowed to become memories of their own because I'll be too busy focusing on the yesterdays and the should-have-beens and the why-didn't-Is to even see the people in front of me, too destroyed by the long ago to notice the now. To keep the present, I have to let go of the past.
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