You are living in the present preparing for the future. The past is dead
and you should let the past bury the past.
The man who dreams of the past and forgets his future, is like a man who
rises in the morning not of today but of yesterday. He is going backward
when his face is put in front pointing always forward.
Life is too short to be wasted in vain regrets for what has transpired
in the past. Even yesterday is ancient history and best forgotten.
We have work to do in the present to perfect or accomplish something in
the future; it is our time of grace, given us to grasp at opportunities
as they come before us.
While you are lamenting an opportunity that escaped you yesterday, a
better one comes along today and passes us unnoticed.
There is too much of this sort of sorrow experienced by the people of
the earth, but when it comes to a man with an occupation, a business man
or a young man getting ready for business, it is positively foolish and
detrimental.
We know that it has been the practice of people in all times to fret and
worry about the things of the past, for there are numerous sayings
cautioning them against it. One of them is very appropriate: “Never cry
over spilled milk.” It is gone and can not be restored.
Many persons may have what is called a “skeleton” in his closet, but it
does not do him nor his friends any good service to keep rattling its
bones continually.
If you have been very wrong in the past, repent and begin over again.