How do you deal with aspects of your personal history you don't like?

[UdoKier]

How do you deal with aspects of your personal history you don't like?

[Spider Jerusalem]

1. They are learning experiences...when one stops learning, one starts dying.

[Droopy]

2. I wish I could say that

The only thing I've learned from them is pain. I want to deny past painful experiences, but they keep creeping back.

[TexasProgresive]

8. Maybe cause you didn't learn from them. n/t

[underseasurveyor]

9. Pain exists for one reason. To get your attention.

Without it no one would learn, grow or change a damn thing about themselves or in their lives. Pain says (((HEY PAY ATTENTION TO ME DAMNIT!)))
Pain will not go away until you acknowledge it, face it, and work through what ever experiences that are still troubling you. If you ignore pain and never learn what it's trying to tell you, the same mistakes may be repeated. Pain doesn't keep creeping back in if you haven't shown it the way out, it hasn't gone anywhere. You gotta personally walk with it and show it the door. Or of course the alternative is living with it the rest of your life. It's a choice :shrug:
:hug:

[jadedcherub]

3. What personal history I don't like..

:)

[BelleCarolinaPeridot]

4. Considering everything that I have been through the past 5 years ...

I take everything that I have been through as a lesson . School can't teach you everything .

[GingerSnaps]

5. It's called the School of Hard Knocks

I earned a masters degree through them :D

[tavalon]

6. And if they are still around

I look at them and I change them if I don't like them. But I am who I am because of where I've been, and who I used to be. I like me so those things helped me to become someone I like.

[DeepGreen]

7. You are here

This is now. We all make decisions every day, some good, some we wish we hadn't made. You are not in your past. You made it through.
You have a new day. Have you watched flowers as a new day starts.
It seems that they close at night and open again in the morning to have a fesh start to soak up the sun.

There are some people that deny they make mistakes. I think we know one. For me, realizing and accepting my failures help me deal with them and accept who I am. Slowly, their effect on me starts to disappear.

[Demeter]

10. I Regularly Contemplate Murder

but I can never chose just one target.

[no_hypocrisy]

11. It's how you have resolved your mistakes that determine the quality of

your character, not the mistakes themselves.

[shesemsmom]

12. I learn from them

and move on