“Get out of here and move forward,” Don says. “This never happened. It will shock you how much it never happened.”
Mad Men – Season 2, Episode 5: “The New Girl”
If you allow it to, your past will stick to you like a stag-beetle.
It will make all your endeavours twice as heavy.
It will make you fear your own shadow.
But at any moment, you could escape this fate, simply by deciding to.
Who you are and what you consider to be just and true right now at this very second is all there is. Everything is else is imagined.
Discard who you were yesterday. Throw it away. The parts that were worth keeping – the people, the ideas, the good times – they’ll stay with you. Whatever you lose wasn’t worth keeping in the first place. Let it vanish. It was a lie anyway.
There is only one direction.