Leave The Broken Pieces Where They Lay And Find Yourself Again

Esther George
Journal of Journeys
5 min readOct 15, 2020

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Be brave enough to heal

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Who never has to deal with regrets?

I’m talking about the lingering type. The kind that makes you beat yourself up every time it surfaces. The kind that has the power to control your mood and makes you feel miserable for days on end. The kind that digs into your deepest woes and reminds you of what you could’ve or should’ve done.

Memories are timeless treasures of the heart, and sometimes it’s near impossible not to hold on to it. When situations didn’t quite turn out the way we expect it, regret and guilt become unavoidable.

The weight of regret drags you down. It becomes harder to carry the longer you hold on to it.

Clinging on to a past mistake is not the same as learning from it. The tormenting thoughts that accompany the memories create self-loathing and cause you to feel downright worthless, undeserving of love and happiness.

It makes you forget that life is happening right now. What you’re ruminating on doesn’t make sense anymore because no amount of worry or regret is going to change the past.

What can you accomplish by burying yourself in the problem?

What’s past is past.

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Esther George
Journal of Journeys

Writer • Dreamer • Storyteller • She writes about discovering and living your best life now because life is truly what you make it.