I don’t know about this friend I understand that many of us, myself included for sure have made mistakes in the past but I honestly think until we make our peace with our past, in other words repent if what we know we have willfully done wrong to harm others in our own mad rush to fulfill our base desires and lusts or simply selfish whims, the past will keeping knock knock knocking on the door of our heart. And most likely we will repeat again and again the same mistakes. Surely if we have done what we can as far as we are able to repair and reconcile and confess we don’t need to feel shame and guilt or crippling despair that is true definitely. But if we can acknowledge that our past has brought to where we are now!!
This is absolute bollocks. The future grows out of the past. A future without a past is rootless and shallow. Even when we're newborn we have our parents' pasts to digest. Our future should be consistent with our past or we have no integrity. If we've done wrong in the past we have to make amends. If we've done right we have something to celebrate and a tradition to continue. And if wrong has been done to us then we have something to put right and forgive.
I don’t know about this friend I understand that many of us, myself included for sure have made mistakes in the past but I honestly think until we make our peace with our past, in other words repent if what we know we have willfully done wrong to harm others in our own mad rush to fulfill our base desires and lusts or simply selfish whims, the past will keeping knock knock knocking on the door of our heart. And most likely we will repeat again and again the same mistakes. Surely if we have done what we can as far as we are able to repair and reconcile and confess we don’t need to feel shame and guilt or crippling despair that is true definitely. But if we can acknowledge that our past has brought to where we are now!!
This is absolute bollocks. The future grows out of the past. A future without a past is rootless and shallow. Even when we're newborn we have our parents' pasts to digest. Our future should be consistent with our past or we have no integrity. If we've done wrong in the past we have to make amends. If we've done right we have something to celebrate and a tradition to continue. And if wrong has been done to us then we have something to put right and forgive.
The story makes sense but, like the past, it is in your memories and sometime never leaves your mind.