Wonderful Memories

Memories are a wonderful way to bring ourselves back to a beautiful moment. They are the heart of creating and recreating, and they allow us to figure out our lives through the blissful memories we have created throughout youth. However, memories can shadow our lives if we let them. Even happy memories can cast a shadow over our life if we allow them to. When we live in the firm cement of even the happiest memories we restrict our ability to move forward. We can never compare last year’s happy memories with the memories we get to create this year. But holding everyone in your life to such a high standard also pretty much sets them up to fail.

Memories are fantastic until that’s all you have left. Nobody wants to live in the past, especially not when that past is created only by memories. Memories, by the way, are created as we wish to see them not as they really were, can prevent everyone around you from moving on if you hold on to them too tightly. While the trip down memory lane every now and then can be a healthy excursion the chronic trip can be maddening for those around you. When you are too focused on the past you are missing the miracle of what is right in front of you, and everyone around you knows it. Hanging onto beautiful memories is a lovely way to stay connected to something or someone that you have loved dearly, but there is also love to be had today and people who would like your love in the moment, not in yesterday’s shadow.