If you can't break free from the memories of the past, you're wasting today. Once you understand the causes and effects of what happened- you acknowledge the wrongs you've committed; you acknowledge the simple hopes you once held; and you're startled to discover that you, too, have caused pain-acting with good intentions but leading to the wrong outcomes... So I laughed, and I cried. Then I came to understand the sorrows and joys of the past-they were neither as hopeless as I'd thought, nor as pure and flawless as I'd dreamed. The past is just that-the past. I simply focus on figuring out how to live today; that is the way to master the future.
