Oftentimes you hear people say, "I am not what happened to me", "I am not what I was", and such clichés. While they may not be wrong due to the perceptions they hold in the present, the truth is that the past is yet, because the past lives in them. Your past lives in you.
Everything that man does is recorded in his spirit. This record, if negative, is not obliterated by Grace or Time, despite forgiveness. It may be covered, but it's somewhere in the archives of the human spirit. Otherwise, sowing and reaping is a hoax. And even it’s positive, it is yet.
The past is because the memory never forgets. Sometimes, you are haunted by your past when the memory brings up some past experiences. The memory plays back and reminds you of some events in your past. Sometimes too, you relish what the memory throws up.
The memory operates like a circle. Events revolve over and over again till they are given a back seat through deliberately ignoring the negatives and progressively playing towards and activating the positives. In other words, we the sow good as a routine so that the bad become irrelevant.
You are left with different choices when this happens. Depending on what it is, you either desire and relieve it, and make it happen again, or you stifle it. It depends on your mindset and what you are sold out to or given to.
Specific steps are required. You may push it back to the crevices where it belongs if it's a less desirable one. In this case, you don't want to be reminded of that past. It's there anyway; only buried and inert by the choices you now make and maintain progressively.
Sometimes too, the past is only reminding you to be on guard as history is about repeating itself. This may be either positive or negative. You may need to help someone out of a similar situation that you were in at some point in the past. You may be required to make a sacrifice.
Don't delude yourself to believing that the past is dead. It is not even because it is an event. No! Events are spirits and spirits don't die. This much you must become conscious of.
Being conscious or aware is good. Being able to do something about what you are conscious of is however great. They are both steps in the process of value creation and manifestation.
There are things you don't want to remember because they are accompanied with negative emotions and some of them have the seeds of driving us to dangerous extremes and so we don't want to associate with them; yet, they are, however dormant or inert.
We match those memories with the affirmations that they are gone and lay in the past. We drive our belief vehicle to such corners continuously and we truly achieve that goal because of the creative powers in us.
Yet, they are there. Through association, we smell some smell and remember the past. We see some images and remember the past. Some winds blow and our day is almost ruined. We dream some dreams and some thoughts return. The cycles continues that way.
If only we can truly accept and live in the reality of acceptance that everything is a gift for which gratitude is required, we would learn to tap into uncommon treasures aimed only at fortifying us through experience.
It is true that we are not what happened to us. We are what we do with and about the things that happen to us. This mindset is a powerful one. It is unfathomable strength to reside there. Arriving at that point is no mean feat because several shifts would have happened in our consciousness.
If the past can be completely obliterated, then our spirit which is the Maker’s candle that searches our inward parts would have done a poor job of recording our entire thoughts, words, and actions. Everything is in a retrieval system. This is an incontrovertible fact.
