Too many people dwell on the past: the thing is to get on with life.
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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.
We all carry our past. But it is a case of getting on with your life and improving it, if you want to.
I try not to dwell on the past. I'm not a big go-back-and-try-to-relive-your-past kinda person.
I tend to live in the past because most of my life is there.
My life is not just about the past.
I don't like to dwell on the past.
I do try not to dwell on the past too much, because I have a tendency to do that, and as I've gotten older, I've gotten very good at distancing myself from shoulda, woulda, coulda.
I'm just fascinated by the past. You know, both by the possibilities it holds and by the complete tyranny of it, the way it sort of keeps you in this stranglehold and makes you want things that you no longer have and you can never get back.
You can't dwell in your past but move forward, look forward. That's it.
Sometimes it takes looking at the past to really be able to move forward and learn from it.
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