We all have one. Some of us are proud of it, some of us have tried to erase it. Some of us remember it as our better days, others as the experience of hell on earth. Some of us have pictures on our walls to remind us of it, while others have torn any remaining images of it. Some of us have sweet dreams of it, others wake up in horror of it.
A HISTORY. We all have one.
This is what I have been thinking and learning….There are many things in my past I am not proud of and others I brag about. There are many things in my past that I really didn’t have control over. As if it was handed to me without a choice. So I lived with it and made the best of it. Many things in my past shaped the way I talk, walk, react and feel. It shaped the way I thought of others. It shaped the way I viewed love, sex, music women, drugs, violence, education, God, Church, Careers and many other things. Some of the things of my past I carried with me for many years cause I felt I needed them…Wasn’t it normal? I can play the game blame but in the end everything was a result of the decisions I made with my life. Some lead to great paths while others took me to destructive ones.
Today I am grateful to be standing, I am grateful to have an amazing wife still with me, I am grateful to be a super dad with the courage to tell my sons I love them, I am grateful that God was merciful and loved me more then anything…Because of that I can be grateful for the beautiful people and things around me.
This is what I have been thinking and learning. Despite of our past history and all the things we are not proud of, we don’t have to carry those things to our next destination. Though many things in our past have dictated our every move, it doesn’t have to be that. Though we may have been shaped by this history it doesn’t mean you can not re write your history. Today can be the beginning to the rest of your life, if you choose to…
"We are all shaped by a past we can no longer control, but we can
choose a future by which to be defined forever"
-fuser+
What are your thoughts?
