Fuck that people who leave u and judge u to the past

“What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

The past does not define us; what does is only what we choose to be.

We are slaves to the past only by our choosing.

For it is only by unwillingness do we refuse to let the past remain there.

To enslave one’s self to the past is to relive it within one’s own mind — the past becomes an overbearing and overarching foe, an obstructing veil that colors what we do and how we live. Worst of all, those with whom we interact, those who cannot see and seldom realize the veil of the past that you choose to wear, suffer the consequences of misunderstanding, miscommunication, and strained relations.