Memories...like the corners of my miiiind...

I was inspired by my status shuffle quote on fb today:

"People cherish memories because memories are the only things that don't change when everyone else does".

Sometimes we can't help but be entranced by the memories we have stored up in our cranium. We always seem to want to focus on the good and not the bad, get lost in memories of old when we were the most happy.

But bad memories can be helpful in their own right. You learn from the encounters you face, the obstacles you overcome, the life lessons you learn from having gone through unpleasant encounters in your lifetime. The trick is, not to focus/dwell on your memories to the point where you are not living in the here and now...it IS tempting to let your old thoughts recycle through your head and base your current encounters with people/situations instead of just learning the lesson you were meant to and learning how to make the new encounters you face easier to deal with.

I think most people wish they could travel back through time and give themselves a good beating in regards to the mistakes they made, but we learn nothing if we don't screw up...and we wouldn't be the people we are now if we didn't go through the hard times. But...as much as you may try to make good out of a bad situation, there are times when we wish we could freeze time and live in that moment where we were happy...and there's nothing wrong with visiting the past to enjoy those moments once more...but to hope that things will always be the same, or hold resentment that things cannot stay the same will just wind up making you batshit crazy.

Live in the now! Embrace your future...and enjoy the happy moments of yesteryear, but do your best to make good memories now instead of living in the past.