If you are carrying strong feelings about something that happened in your past, they may hinder your ability to live in the present.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
People who live in the past generally are afraid to compete in the present. I've got my faults, but living in the past is not one of them. There's no future in it.
I guess I'm living in the present more than the past.
People say, 'Don't live in the past.' But I guess it depends on how interesting your past is.
You can't dwell in your past but move forward, look forward. That's it.
It is sadder to find the past again and find it inadequate to the present than it is to have it elude you and remain forever a harmonious conception of memory.
I am the type that cannot stay put in living in the past and solely in the past. It's not healthy and it doesn't feel right.
We're all struggling to get out of the past. We see something that reminds us of something, and then we bring our baggage into the present. Then we project it onto people constantly.
My past seems to be way more fascinating for people than my future, which bums me out.
I'm not someone who lives in the past; I find other people live in my past. I live in the present and the future.
But reason has no power against feeling, and feeling older than history is no light matter.
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