How to Forget the Past and Live in the Present Moment

When your nights are long and you have sleepless nights. When your days are weary and fruitless, when all your efforts tend to go with the wind, it's time to rethink about your life and put the past behind you.There is no one who doesn't want to be happy but many times our past weighs us down and gives us a bleak picture of the future. Happiness means that you have to forget your past failures, frustrations, unmet goals, disappointments and all other things that would bring unhappiness in your life. When you dwell on the past, you waste so much energy which you would have used to accomplish your dreams.

At one time or another in your life, you have said to yourself "I wish I did not do this or that" or '"I wish this did not happen" "I wish I had thought ahead of time" "I wish this sickness did not befall me" "I wish I knew" but do all these wishes add any value to your life? They don't. Instead, they make you feel hopeless, frustrated and a loser in life. But is that the end of you? NO. What you need to do is to turn your tables around and start life a fresh. A wise man once said that "the great thing in this world is not so much where we are, but in what direction are we moving. With this kind of hope you can accomplish so much in life than you had ever thought.

How to forget the past

In the 21st century there are a lot of challenges faced by people in all walks of life on daily basis. Many are always in a grip of inertia just because of their past. You may not want to recall or revisit what happened in the past just because of the pain and sorrow that it may bring to you, but it is important to learn from it and try to resolve it, rather than letting it to eat you up from within. In order to forget the past, there are a couple of things that you must have in mind.

Change starts with you: you can change your pasts mentally, but you can't change it physically. So it is ideal to embrace the present and forget your past failure.

Don't believe what somebody said about you: you may have been abused, bullied or demeaned. All these can lower your self-esteem or even make you not to even think of yourself. So it's important to focus on your present life rather than dwelling on what people say about you.

Always have friends who will be there for you: never mind about those people who did not respect you or appreciate you. You have to let go and appreciate your living in present time. Friends always give a shoulder to lean on so you have to stick to true mates.