You are your past, but not just your past

You are the awkward person you cringe when you look at old photos,
And the constant over-achiever of the medals that stand in the cupboard.

You are the collection of painful memories with some that still sting freshly,
You are the collage of joyful memoirs that warms the depth of your heart.

You broke your first heart,
And you let your heart be broken the first time.

You are the one who made that horribly stupid mistake,
You are the one who inspired that amazing incident.

You are your past, 
but not just your past.

If there's one thing I wish for, is for all of us to live our lives in peace with our past, and in peace with the anxiety of future that hasn't come.
I wish for us to live the now. Not so much in the #YOLO way, but in the right-now-I'm-alright way.
Nothing suffocates more than trying to catch up with a life going backwards, when all it does is move forward, because life moves forward.

We can't change the past, but we can change how we choose to live the decisions of our past.

And yes, we can choose to live that happily.

P.S: Here's a TED talk that might help; "Don't Regret Regret"