Letting Go of Yesterday
We’ve all done it, replayed old conversations in our head, wished we’d taken a different path, wondered “what if?” with a heaviness that clings like fog.
Sometimes the past feels like a room we keep walking into, even though the door to the present is wide open.
Buddha’s teaching, “Do not dwell in the past,” isn’t a denial of history. It’s a gentle reminder: what’s behind us no longer holds power unless we let it.
Healing, growth, joy, they live here and now. And this moment, fleeting and imperfect, is the only place we can truly breathe and begin again.
Imagine a woman who carries regret for choices she made when she was younger.
Every day she wakes up and scrolls through those mental files, as if she's responsible for rewriting them.
But one day, she watches the sun rise without thinking of anything at all.
Just light, warmth, and silence. And it’s in that pause where peace finds her, not through fixing the past, but by surrendering to the present.
Letting go doesn’t mean forgetting. It means choosing not to get stuck in loops that drain us.
It means making space for new thoughts, new compassion, new strength.
The past is a story. The present is the pen. Write something kind today.
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