Stop! Breathe and Try Again.

North America Group.
Week 3: “Equilibriums: The importance of remembering about our past but looking to the future.”

Stop! Breathe and Try Again.

Like George Santayana once said, “People who don’t know their past, are cursed to repeat it in the future.” When we learn about our past experiences, it’s hard to fall again into the same mistakes. People are imperfect, and everyone has their own secrets, but as humans we have the capacity of making our own choices, so a mistake can be turned into a decision, and changes are based on the decisions we make.

The history of each one of us is full of bad, good, happy, sad, and many other types of moments. But we can learn from every type of them. Unfortunately, some people just like to live of their remembering and dig a big and deep hole where everything can be turned bad, even with a big fright to move on. I was one of those people. It’s terrible to wake up every single day and not feel anything. In my opinion, being indifferent is worse that feeling sad. There are so many scars and hounds in the heart, like if a cruel and cold sword was stabbed in the deepest of your heart, but there’s no medicine or treatment that can cure them. People call you stupid for feeling bad, and say that you are overreacting, but no one’s there to give you a hand to help you to put together all the pieces that your soul has been divided in. Well, you know? There is a solution. We have to learn how to forgive, how to give the importance that the things deserve. It’s hard to do, especially when it’s about feelings, but not impossible. Sometimes because of our past problems and worries, we can’t see and appreciate what we have today. The past is gone, the future is uncertain, but the present is now. We can’t handle every detail that happens in our lives, but we can always stop, breathe and think what to do to make things much better.  Like we said, the past is gone, you have to let it go, you can’t be carrying pieces of glass that just hurt you when they have the chance, you just have to drop it and heal. When it heals, it’s just like another scar, we cannot erase them, and they are part of us, but it’s the reminder that it doesn’t matter how bad the marks that our past left on us could be, they can always heal, and when we see them, we have to use them like the motivation of doing things much better. The future is in our hands, so we can shape it the way we want.  Never be afraid of closing cycles and starting new ones, because it can always be better; let’s make it better.

The future can be much better if we want it to be. Like Dr. Seuss said, “Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not.”

By Fer C., Mexico
19 years old