My apologies. I read into your words what many other people usually mean when they say that kind of thing. Now I understand what you truly meant, I applaud you.
My own past is full of folly and torment and happiness and achievement. I can't change that either and wouldn't want to because I have learnt from it, sooner or later. Eventually I've realised that I needn't try to build a new future somehow separate from what's gone before, but that I can instead add new things to an ever growing past.
Has anyone here read "Who Moved My Cheese?" by Spencer Johnson, M.D.?
