Do we ignore the past or cling to it?

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Simplicity is the basis for any decision, what hurts us should be discarded, and remembering old experiences can help us to improve the present and future, all this makes us think that we should ignore the past that hurts us and revive the past that can teach us good things.

To know the reason for the occurrences of the present and what can happen in the future it is necessary to review the past, history shows us that completely ignoring our past makes us constantly make mistakes in the present and future, which although it seems promising can become a great challenge.

The important thing is to keep in mind that we can ignore the past but with awareness, i.e. we can believe that something did not happen in the past, but with awareness ahead of the knowledge of every detail of what happened, downplaying it does not mean forgetting it, it could be very serious if we forget it, because we may make the same mistakes of the past.

To live regretting for what happened yesterday does not help us to solve the problems of the present, on the contrary the best thing is to have it present as a reason of memory not to do the same, but it is not good for our lives to give importance to the bad that happened to us in the past, on the contrary it is important that we see our past as that teacher that teaches us a learning to take the best of the benefits.

For example if we remember our past years of poverty, it should not be to regret it and justify a possible current situation of poverty, on the contrary if we remember our years of poverty in the past should be to remember the mistakes made that led us to that situation of poverty, and thus not to make those mistakes in the present and future in our lives.