Yesterday was only meant to be lived once

Yesterday is only meant to be lived once
We all make mistakes. We stumble, fall down, and get some bumps and bruises along the way. It’s something we share with all humanity, from our greatest enemies to our favorite heroes. But the difference between which we become more alike is what we bring with us from yesterday into today. What is it, exactly, that you are carrying?
Our enemies bring the hurt and carry all the pain it caused. The mess ups, the fears, the creeping doubt that because we fell once, we are doomed to fall again and again. The more we focus on what happened, the more we spiral downwards into ourselves, where the only thing that is created today is more of the regrets of yesterday. When we live in the past mistakes, we cannot escape them; we don’t give ourselves a chance at doing differently today at all, because we are holding onto the chains of exactly what we did before. We just relive things that can’t hurt us anymore except in the choices we make right now. And, if this is us right now, all we are doing with the power of today is allowing yesterday to steal it away and hurt us again with ghosts of what happened before.
But there is another way.
Heroes often have the same yesterday’s as you do. They stumble, fall down, and get some bumps and bruises along the way; the difference is that they don’t carry those things with them in the morning, allowing these things to weight them down and drag them through the mud again and again. They know that is not way to live. Instead, they hand them over to today, exchanging them for knowledge, experience, and the ability to grow from what didn’t work. They still carry the memories of yesterday; we all do, and always will. But they use these things as reminders, not life sentences. As memories, not walls. As opportunities to learn something about themselves and the world around them. Not as a prison to keep their light locked away within. They use them, today; they don’t all themselves to be used by them.
Yesterday mattered. Yesterday. Just don’t let it matter today more than today does. That’s what a hero would do. And you can be one, too.
- a sign

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