/improve/ - Self Improvement

I'd disagree, I think how a person interprets their past is a large factor on whether or not they will improve.

Someone looking back and going "what if" constantly is different to someone looking back at the old times and being glad they happened.

>>5100

Fucking this.

The past is there so that you can learn from it and use it to improve yourself. For example, when I watch cartoons or movies that I watched looooong ago back when I was 4 or 5 I realize in which ways for better or worse they influenced my upbringing and outlook on life.

There are some parts of the past that you should let go of though, the parts that make you sad or depressed, but that's another story altogether.

>If you are still in love with the past then you will never truly improve

I was really bad about this for a while. I couldn't watch or be around anything related to my childhood for a while because I'd want to break down in tears. I think the biggest thing that gave me that reaction is the idea that I'll never be in the wonderfully oblivious situation again. Thinking that my family are all good people, the country is ok, everything will be alright. Now I know half my family are snakes, the country is going down the shitter and people are starting to die. Took a while for me to get out of that funk but now I think about the future instead of the past. Think more about what I'm going to get and not what I've lost.