They told you the past defines you.
They lied.
The past is a teacher, not a warden.
Its job is to inform, not imprison.
Every memory carries data like what worked, what hurt, what you’ll never do again.
That’s useful.
But when you replay it on loop, you stop living in the only place that matters which is NOW.
You don’t need to erase your history.
You need to update your script.
Say it out loud:
“That was then. This is now.”
Each time you act from today instead of yesterday, you build proof that you have evolved.
That’s agency. That’s growth. That’s zest.
So let the past brief you, not boss you.
Take the lesson, leave the weight, and move.
Because aliveness doesn’t live in memory —
it lives in motion.
Your spark is waiting where you are standing.
Not where you have been.
