Looking back and understanding what you might have done differently is a source of strength.

Awareness is a currency of sorts.

But being sorry for yesterday, dwelling on the days gone by, that is a waste of time.

See, those feelings of discontent, the emotions that rise to the surface as our minds sort through that catalog of regret.

You know, the emotions that try and pull you back down into the very moment in which they occurred.

If you let them lead you by the hand back into a manufactured hell, they will. And down you will go, reliving an expired pain that

you can neither prevent nor do anything about. After all, it is the past. But alternatively,

if we can do one of the hardest things for humans to do, which is depersonalize the occurrence, remove the emotion and find the value, you stand face to

face with an advantage in life that is exponential.

Not only are you refusing to be defined or tortured by yesterday, but you're creating a framework

by which you can actually use that pain to make a better right now.

You're acknowledging that your mistakes are not indicative of a current reflection in the mirror.

They're not metal bars keeping you closed in. There are opportunities in disguise.

A friend of mine once told me, from our pain comes our purpose. From our despair comes our hope. It's from the times we got it, oh, so

completely wrong, that we can now arm ourselves with the ability to get it

right, to be better and faster and stronger and wiser.

The reality, or life in the big city, as this saying goes, is having to fall in order to rise again.

Because if nothing falls, there are no ashes from which to rebuild.

We change when we've lost. We evolve when we're cornered.

We become more when life shakes our worldview.

There's power in this suffering.

That is, if you choose to find it.

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