Do you haul the corpse of your past around with you? So many people do, you know.
Elmer Rice [pictured left], in his play Dream Girl, says, through his character Clark Redfield, ‘If you can make a dream come to life, grab hold of it. But if it dies on you, roll up your sleeves and give it a decent burial, instead of trying to haul the corpse around with you.’
I often hear someone say in AA meetings, ‘Let the past stay in the past.’ That’s very sound, spiritual advice. I think that is what Jesus really meant when he said, ‘Let the dead bury their own dead’ (Mt 8:22).
Albert Einstein [pictured below right] wrote, ‘We live in a society that forgets the present.’ One of the reasons we forget the present is that we are still haunted by the past, especially our own past. We relive old hurts, failures and other negativities, and for so long as we are obsessing or ruminating about the past, we are not living in the present. We must let go of the past—and let it stay in the past. For better or for worse, the past is over. It no longer exists, except perhaps as a present memory.
There is something odd about all of us. We often cling to our hurts and failures more than we do to the good times. We must forget both—yes, both the ‘bad’ stuff as well as the ‘good’ stuff. Both prevent us from seeing things-as-they-really-are right now.
In many ways holding on to the so-called ‘good’ stuff is even more dangerous than holding on to the ‘bad,’ for it deludes us into thinking that the best times are in the past and are unlikely to be repeated. We fear ever having that sort of experience again, so we cling to the memory of it lest we forget it. We fear that if the latter happens, there will be no joy, happiness or excitement left in our life. Rubbish! That’s a cop-out. Please see it for what it is.
So, stop looking back. Remember what happened to Lot’s wife? She was turned into a pillar of salt—with no life in her. Don’t let that happen to you.
Source:
http://ianellis-jones.blogspot.com/2013/10/let-dead-bury-dead.html
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It is known as the “Perfect Present”. The best gift God gives to us. For tomorrow has enough problems of its own and yesterday has already left for good.
Cite your sources
Who should cite their sources, Anonymous? If you are referring to me, the author of the post, do you want Act, Scene, and line number, for Dream Girl. I quoted the verse in the Bible for Jesus’ saying. The AA quote is impossible to source, at least in the form in which I have quoted the saying. That leaves only the Einstein quotation, which, admittedly, I didn’t provide a reference for. This has come from a blog, not a PhD thesis. If you are referring to the contribution from ElOregonian, there is nothing to ‘source.’ He or she was simply making a comment and expressing an opinion of his or her own. Be reasonable, and stop hiding behind your anonymity, Anonymous, if you want to be taken seriously.
Things were seemingly better in the past before this Obamacare mandate forced monthly payment that is coming in the future.
We in Australia—that’s where I live—have a national health scheme that provides good health cover for every citizen, regardless of whether they can afford it, and even if they can’t afford it. Everyone is covered by the government scheme. You see, Australians see health care as being a basic human right—not a privilege for those who can afford it. It’s a wonderful system, and all the political parties support it. We look askance at the American system, where so many are uninsured because they simply can’t afford the exorbitant amount you have to pay to be privately insured, and see it as grossly unfair.