Getting out of the past

I have a tendency to ruminate, and am always working to better keep myself in the present. Not that reminiscing on fond memories is a bad thing, but it’s different from ruminating and getting ‘stuck’ on replay. When I ruminate, the past can be 20 years ago, and it can be yesterday. 

Somewhere on the internet, someone said, “Your new life will cost you your old life.” I realized that to stay grounded in the present, I must lean into the motion of reinventing myself. And that ‘forward motion’ of building my new self is what keeps me from getting stuck in the past. Life is a constant treadmill of reinvention.