Re: Re: How d'yall deal with the bad memories?
  By: Alan Ianson to Damon A. Getsman on Tue Nov 10 2015 08:41:20

 AI> We all have memories and feelings (good and bad) from the past. Those
 AI> bad feelings we get sometimes from the past are there to help us on our
 AI> way to where we are going, where we want to be.

  That is a good way to look at it.  I'm just working on getting better at
letting go after I've learned the lessons from the painful memories.  It's
always been difficult for me, and I know from talking with other people that
I'm not the only one who has a rough time.  My friend put it well, he calls it
his 'nightly revisitation hour' where all of the things even back in
gradeschool and stuff, whatever your mind wants to throw at you, goes active. 
I just call mine the ghost of eff-ups past, but it's the same thing.

 AI> Go ahead and take the steps it takes to get to where you want to be.
 AI> There is no shame in that.

  Definitely working on that.  Just trying to find out if there are any other
techniques that I haven't thought of that might help me work through things a
little bit faster.  Thank god I never went to Iraq/Afghanistan.

  -D

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