@auraheavytypeshi: Don’t get stuck in the past. Your future is too bright for that. You can’t change what happened. You can’t go back and make yourself leave sooner, choose differently, say the right thing, or recognize what you know now. But you can decide how much of your future you’re willing to give to something that already happened. Learn from it. Forgive what you can. Take accountability for your part. Keep the wisdom and leave the weight behind. Because constantly looking backward can make you miss everything beginning to grow in front of you. There are still people you haven’t met. Places you haven’t been. Prayers that haven’t been answered yet. Versions of yourself you haven’t become. Memories you haven’t made. And ordinary days ahead that might eventually become some of the best days of your life. Your past deserves to be understood, but it doesn’t deserve to control where you go next. You’ve already lived those chapters. Take what they taught you and keep turning the page. There’s too much life ahead of you to spend it staring behind you.