the past

Out of all the good we had
You only keep track of the bad..."

These are lines from one song revived by Jed Madela titled The Past. It relates how the singer wants for him and his girl to forget their not so good past. His sentiment is that they had a lot of good times together but the girl only remembers the bad.

Come to think of it. Is it not what happens to most of us? We always dwell on the past, and remember only the extreme. We either can't forget the best or we can't forget the worst. We do not give much value to what happens in our lives that seem to be ordinary. Therefore, we treasure our memories with some people who made us experience the best of the world. Then, we would like to forget the people who gave us a hell of a life.

Yet, we can't forget those people who gave us hell because it's the extreme...

So what happens to us if we always remember the best and the worst? Not only do we treasure the memories. Most of the times, we look up to those who gave us the best. We even treat them as our masters. On the other hand, we hate those that gave us hell to the extent of wishing them hell also.

"Did you think revenge will make it better?"

That would be another line in the song. To answer the question, we know things will not be better if we will seek for vengeance. There's no use cursing those who gave us hell. In the same manner that it's fine if we are grateful to those who made our dreams come true. There's no need for us to treat them as our masters and have ourselves enslaved by them.

I guess, what's best is for us to live our lives in a less complicated manner. Why don't we stop dwelling on the past and move on? Why don't we think about the last few lines of the song?

"One thing that I`m sure will work
That we haven`t tried before
Let`s not bring the past back anymore"

Even in the holy bible, we can see that the Lord has always been forgiving.

"And they shall teach no more every man his neighbor, and every man his brother, saying, Know the LORD: for they shall all know me, from the least of them unto the greatest of them, saith the LORD: for I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more." (Jeremiah 31:34)


The Past