I’m frequently reminded…
… that the mind can distort the past and in the process change the way your future may have been if you hadn’t distorted the past. (Are you following me?)
Don’t re-write your history.
It is what it is.
Grow from your mistakes.
If you don’t recognize that you have made them and learn not to repeat them, you’ll end up making the same mistakes in the future.
Because you were pretending you’d never made them in the first place, it’s as if it’s the first time and thus the cycle repeats it’s self.