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Posted by capricorn on November 29, 2006, at 21:07:13
Like nothing else can :(
Posted by Phillipa on November 29, 2006, at 22:29:07
In reply to The past can haunt you, posted by capricorn on November 29, 2006, at 21:07:13
Oh yes it can but I guess you have to try and leave it behind.Love Phillipa
Posted by capricorn on November 29, 2006, at 22:37:08
In reply to Re: The past can haunt you » capricorn, posted by Phillipa on November 29, 2006, at 22:29:07
If only it were that easy.
Posted by Gabbi~G~ on November 29, 2006, at 23:53:44
In reply to The past can haunt you, posted by capricorn on November 29, 2006, at 21:07:13
Yeah, I know, it scares me because I didn't even know on what a deep level things from the past have affected me. For me, it's not as I think of a certain situation and get sad, it's far more insidious than that.
I loved the movie "Magnolia" and one line that was often repeated by the narrator was
"And so, we may be through with the past, but is the past, through with us?"
Posted by Declan on November 30, 2006, at 1:58:50
In reply to Re: The past can haunt you » capricorn, posted by Gabbi~G~ on November 29, 2006, at 23:53:44
Good movie, hey?
As you get older there are more and more things to regret.
What to do?
Be very forgiving?
Develop habits of forgiveness?
Learn what to accept and what to change?I have a fear that I will end up with agitated depression which is, in my imagination, a bad attack of the regrets.
I never could understand Edith Piaf's 'Je ne regrete rien'. Well, just about hardly ever.
Posted by Declan on November 30, 2006, at 2:19:05
In reply to Re: The past can haunt you, posted by Declan on November 30, 2006, at 1:58:50
I've mispelled 'regret'.
At least I think so. I regret it in any case.
I've forgotten my French.
I've wasted my life.Maybe it's 'regrette'?
Who thought up this OCD business?
Posted by Gabbi~G~ on November 30, 2006, at 16:19:42
In reply to Re: The past can haunt you, posted by Declan on November 30, 2006, at 1:58:50
Yes, that movie is definitely in my top 5 favourites.
Posted by Wildflower on November 30, 2006, at 18:19:48
In reply to The past can haunt you, posted by capricorn on November 29, 2006, at 21:07:13
Oh yes... My past haunts me on a daily basis. Wish there was a magical pill that would allow to choose to forget certain memories.
Posted by Declan on November 30, 2006, at 21:01:54
In reply to Re: The past can haunt you, posted by Wildflower on November 30, 2006, at 18:19:48
When my mother had agitated depression it was really a big case of the regrets, by which I don't mean to trivialise it. She was in hospital for 9 months, had drugs and ECT and so on. The value system of psychiatry was unable to interact with hers. Someone with a decent understanding of sin would have been better able to understand her. These things burn themselves out eventually, and maybe the person experiencing it is changed by the experience. Fortunately she forgot most of it, and she became more forgiving as the depressive storm passed, or maybe the depressive storm passed as she was able to be more forgiving.
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