Grouplove Itchin' On A Photograph. Living better :)

      This song has captured something beautiful. This song doesn't say to forget the past, and to simply keep going. It is so much deeper and more complicated than that.

We often spend some time looking to the past and yearning for what we once had. For the memories that we can no longer make. For the people we can no longer be near. For the people we once were. For the innocence. For the adventures. For everything that you lost.

But moving forward isn't about forgetting the past. Moving forward is being able to love the photograph, and being able to know that you will always be able to cherish that but that the story does not end there. Being able to be at peace with what has been, and what will not be again.

It is being able to remember the old times, and being comfortable with not only what happened, but where you are now.

But it doesn't end there. It is also about the desire to create a future that makes the past pale in comparison. Building hopes and dreams and then running towards those with your eyes looking ahead. If you are always looking back, you will hit many obstacles as your life moves forward. Before long though, you stop itching for the pictures from the past and you start capturing the pictures of today, and itching for the photo's and memories that have yet to be created.

The future can always be better than the past. You know something today that you did not know yesterday. The past is a beautiful thing, and to reflect is good. But during that reflection it is essential to never forget that you can live bigger and better than that.

For those who say things like "the good old days" and "high school was the best", I can say this, YOUR DOING IT WRONG!                      

                                    



Learn from the mistakes and from the triumphs of the past. And then make new mistakes and conquer new mountains :)

Life is an uphill battle, because you are farther than you were yesterday. You have leveled up.