Sometimes the trick, is to stop in the moment, and realise that you are free of the past. It has gone. All of it. Assess only what the moment of now presents, and move on. The past sends reverberations, of course, especially if there are buried bodies, metaphorically, or even literally I suppose; but it nevertheless no longer exists. It has gone. Review the now, now…, now…, now… and move on.
