We hide from our past.

I know many including me avoid parts of our past, not for the sins per se but for the glorious dreams we once had, we once shared with one another, and sadly those dreams no longer have a place to stay in us. And we fear that others who we had shared those with may bring it up, that we avoid the people altogether who were once our best of friends.

The reality now has robbed us of those cherished dreams and it saddens us enough that we choose to bury the past and avoid the people who we shared it with. And that’s truly a shame. I think I can speak for me that I have lacked the maturity then so to speak, and I have lacked the maturity enough now to see it all through again with the lens of the present.

We unconsciously fear that letting them in again into our lives would be like letting those beautiful dreams remind us of our failures that we chose to ignore both, and that’s a shame.

Failures are life as much as successes, they are simply experience of same value, we can learn we can be hurt, we don’t have to rise or dip in any way. We just have to accept the present and the past for it was wholly. We search for new dreams and memories to cherish, yet we don’t know what to do with those that were already given to us beautifully original.

foto credit: Laura Fuhrman