Today is all we have. The present.
We have influences from our past,
wonderful memories, regrets, baggage. However, the events that we
remember from the past do not exist, except in our present memories.
And memories are fluid. They change.
People who were involved together in a past event each remember it
differently. And as time passes, each individual memory of the single
event continues to change and grow even more different from the
others.
Even though we may have records of
these events: photos, diary entries, newspaper clippings... the
emotional influence, the sense of “what really happened here,”
still changes.
And our present version of the memory
is all we have. All past versions are gone.
Influences from the past are powerful.
They have shaped us into who we are. And they evolve as we evolve. As
we grow older and wiser, we can revisit our memories and see past
events from new, more understanding perspectives and be more
forgiving toward ourselves and others.
If we carry feelings of guilt, shame,
resentment, blame, hurt, we can change them today. We can revisit the
past, reinterpret what happened and reshape how the events influence
us today.
The past does not exist in the past. It
exists in the present. And we have the power to change the present.
We can free ourselves from influences
we don't want any longer. We can erase the past as we remember it and
redraw it with generosity and compassion.
Today is wide open. The present time is
vast and spacious.
We have the power today to change most
anything.
----- Cosmic Grandpa
----- Cosmic Grandpa
