Take a few minutes and reflect upon the people you know now or have known. Remember your first reaction when meeting them? How did you feel around them in the beginning? Did the feeling ever lessen or change?
Think of the people from your past that you've lost contact with. Throughout your lifetime, no matter how old, you have crossed paths with many, many people. Most of which, we know not their names. Of those names we knew, how many can you recall? What do you remember when you think of them? Childhood friends? A neighbor who moved away? What emotions or feelings come over you as you recall each one individually? Is your strongest memory a positive or negative one?
If during your reflection you find that the strongest memory is negative, then perhaps it is an area of your life that is still unresolved. Only you can make peace with that negativity and remove its influence from your life.
Understand, this does not excuse another of wrong doing. Empower yourself by removing the importance of something negative in your life. Find peace with what happened and change your memory of that person. See the strength that grew deep inside and enabled you to survive the pain of a time gone by. That strength remains with you today. That is positive you can find in a negative memory.
No one has to stay trapped inside a movie that is painful. Each of us has the power to stop reviewing the old film of our past and start a new one. Embrace You-the-Survivor. Release You-the-Victim. If you can make your peace, in whichever way heals and empowers you, embrace it and find your past healed through personal growth and understanding, as well as compassion.
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