Erasing The Past

Have you ever thought of erasing the past? Of course, you might have, especially that which hurts. Before you could do it, a question might have surely popped up, 'Will it be easy?' Many subsequent questions like, 'Is it important to erase the past?', 'Will it be helpful?', 'What if I actually do so?' Similarly, many such questions rise and their answers might have either left you sorted, or perplexed you further. 

Now, let's spend some thought on it-'By erasing the past, am I doing the needful?' Well, it becomes difficult to answer whether it is important to erase the past, but yes it is you who decides what to erase! They say one must learn from their past and move on but then does one actually learn from it? This further leads to -'Since I have learnt, should I now erase it? Or keep it?' The answer which I feel might be right is 'Learn from your past, keep it till you don't move ahead and once you have, erase but not entirely, by keeping a few remnants of the same so that when you come across such situations, you remember this and know what to do next?'  Thus a partial erasure is possible.

Now moving on to the next question whether it is easy to erase the past? Nothing is easy in this world. Neither will erasing your past be. As I stated earlier, you must keep the remnants, in that case, a total erasure is not possible. You'll have to live your life with your past how ever it be.  The remnants will remind you of those experiences you have had and help you to be alert and stronger than before and that you can fight back. 

Does erasing the past really help? Since past cannot be totally erased, it's negative impact on you can be lessened and controlled. You need to divert yourself from your past by doing things which take you away from it. Again remember, it is not easy as it will keep haunting you and it will for the entire life but you must pledge to learn from it, see from a different perspective, try changing things by analysing them, then and then it will be helpful. So erasing past won't help but being away from it and changing oneself can help.

'How important is it to erase the past and what are the consequences? Well, what is important here is to not erase the past but erase the negativity associated with the past. And the consequence? You will be a changed human being. A changed soul, and you'll spread optimism and be more creative, more imaginative and think about your health and nurturing yourself. 

Take care,

Lots of love, care and peace❤🤗🕊

Abhinav Bhat.