The Past, Is The Past

A great quote was once said that relayed the message of "living in the moment". whether this statement is true to the matter does not justify the fact that the past is the past. Everyone has a past, and either the past represents someone who you once were and strive to regain, or to simply dodge that essence of you and starting fresh. In theory, there is actually no starting fresh from the Start of the never ending-athlon of life , but a chance to start a new "event" out of the figurative athlon. The past seems to come up a lot in relationships. Whether the "good" past insinuates what kind of person you once were which helps establish a more positive relationship for the long run. But The past I'd like to refer too is the past in a negative connotation. The past concerning recent "destructive" current events/relationships/dilemmas . The problem is once the past is revealed it can be forgiven, but never forgotten. This seems to hurt relationships on the daily. If one were to find out that the past of current boyfriend contained supplements of cheating, then the current spouse would allude to the fact that this PAST situation has the potential to re-surface. This leaves the boyfriend, for this example, completely defenseless and cannot deny the past which means he would be denying the truth. Remember honesty is key throughout every relationship. While this problem arises, it also leaves the boyfriend questioning his passion for his so called girlfriend. Is it real what he has with this girl if the girl he has opened up his heart too cannot even look past the past and fixate her eyes on what this man has became? To sum things up, don't let the past be the foundation in ones relationship, but a revelation to one another of how far this person has come. Life is filled with positives and negatives. If one only looks towards the negatives, then the window of opportunity for a potential positive continuously shrinks after time. This leads to looking at life once worth half of an empty glass and slowly diminishes to a third and a quarter and before you know it. Your glass is completely empty. while the pro's motivates more to come and eventually you are adding up 1/2's of glasses half full that sooner or later start over flowing. This leaves you with over-flowment of a positive life and your "past" is now your outlook of life negatively.