Stop returning to your past again and again

Mitalie Shah
3 min readOct 24, 2020

There is a reason why our past remains in our past and has not become a part of our future when it comes to certain things. I personally feel when you get things from your past thrown your way there is only one reason for that which is to teach you things that you probably didn’t learn the last time around. You’ve to remember that if you see something again and again then its a sign from the universe that you need to find a learn from it or grow from it. We’re always tested on things that we didn’t get to resolve or weren’t in head space to do so at the time it came in our lives so universe finds a way for us to learn from it by throwing a curveball from time to time.

I personally feel when you keep getting those lessons in different forms then its time you find a way to make peace with it or even a closure. I don’t think all lessons can provide you the closure you’re looking for and sometimes some things will be left unsaid, unresolved plus confused. We live in a world where some human beings are okay with constantly creating confusion or messing around with another human being’s feelings time and again because they never realize how insensitive or hurtful they can be towards someone. You also have to swallow this tough pill that no one owes you an explanation or anything in order to resolve the confusion or your feelings towards something but that being said its a sign of common courtesy or decency which might not exist for some people.

The only way to get through with not coming across people from your past or the unresolved feelings you harbor from your past is to find ways in order to be peaceful with it. A lot of our life goes in finding answers for some things that probably don’t have or need any answers but importantly you just have to find a way to be peaceful or letting go of how much it affects you. Its very difficult to let go of that control and not obsesses on every little detail that made it difficult to let go in the beginning but after sometime living a life that requires that much effort in the past can get exhausting. Can you imagine how much your future would be different if those exact thoughts or efforts go in shaping them then dwelling in the past? Its mind boggling as to how much time we spend in the past then in the future sometimes and I guess its because we like to reminisce or become nostalgic or even worse trying to convert heart breaking memories into good ones.

But the good thing is time always is the best answer to these things and the more experiences you accumulate in life you realize what is important over others. I mean you’ll get pulled back in the past if you keep those doors open or even ajar and no matter how difficult it is try to close them fully without this hope of ever coming back to it. Because the reality is if its meant to come back in your life it’ll come back regardless of how you feel but if you’ve closed that door forever then atleast that part of your life will be spent in being peaceful instead of being strangely hopeful for things to happen and you can fully concentrate on a better future.

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Mitalie Shah

Family Medicine Doc. Collector of quotes especially the ones that tell my story. Part-time dreamer and full-time believer.