How do we move forward when life takes us backwards?

THE LETTER 
 
A letter arrives
as a brutal reminder
of a time you
thought was well gone.
 
It seeks to bring
you back there,
to get you back to
where are you once were.
 
But you have
moved on and
what was then,
is now long gone.
 
The only way to truly
move ourselves forward
is to leave
ourselves behind.
 
For it is only then
we can see
where we really are,
and where we are going.

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PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT QUESTIONS
1. What still haunts you from your past?
2. Can you imagine your life without this burden?
3. What might you do to begin to leave your old self behind?

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Day 559 of Des McCabe's Personal Development Exercises