Question of the Day

[ayoub]

Does the past affect you?

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Sometimes...

Comments

[4kudzu.livejournal.com]

Me too... sometimes. :)

[amante-donne.livejournal.com]

yes, i dwell on it way too much for my own good, the regrets, some of the good times, i miss them.

[dishapeaches.livejournal.com]

It affects everyone. People are a result of everything in their past. If anything in your past were different, you'd be someone *else*, no matter how slight.

[alainn-mactire.livejournal.com]

Of course.

If I hadn't experienced everything in my past, even the things with lasting emotional scars, I wouldn't be me.

[libra-dragon.livejournal.com]

Yes but not as much as I used to let it.

[mighty-rontor.livejournal.com]

Yes.

[cmerun12.livejournal.com]

*pointed look*

[catwoman2704.livejournal.com]

most definately it affects me, but also made me who i am now.. :)

[1-rhiannon-1.livejournal.com]

*echoes dishapeaches*

Everything that has happened in the past has contributed to the people that we are today.

[chiropteraclan.livejournal.com]

The past is part of what made me who I am today. how can it not affect me?

[milagro75.livejournal.com]

too much sometimes I think.

[mousie.livejournal.com]

yes.. yes.. and yes...

[sirenity.livejournal.com]

Uh huh. =)

[the-ravyn.livejournal.com]

Absolfreakinglutely!  I didn't get this crazy all by myself, ya know. ;)

[donnickcottage.livejournal.com]

Always.

[donnickcottage.livejournal.com]

You're not crazy. You're just..... special:)

[f-l-i-r-t.livejournal.com]

I really try not to let it, everyone always says live in now, not the past, not the future... hard sometimes. I think our past made who we are today, so hard to completely have it not effect us, right?

[jvmatucha.livejournal.com]

Every godamned day of my life. I've had quite a past!

[shamrocks-13.livejournal.com]

The past always has some kind of impact on you, seriously. I mean, we can all forgive, but can never forget. And remembering what we went through is what helps us to make changes and actually be the person we are every day. Yes, the past affects me, but I try to see it as a positive.

Sometimes the negative peeks in, and it makes me difficult to live with. But I am sure that the right person will work with my past and understand my fears and make me important enough to work through it with me.

I will just wait for that right person.

Love you.

[fox-bard.livejournal.com]

Depends on the trigger, and then I have to sort it out. That's usually a flag for me to fix something inside myself, and an opportunity that, if wasted, will return with inflated interest and much personal unrest.

[fox-bard.livejournal.com]

I just thought it was because you were from Joirsey! ^__~

[ayoub.livejournal.com]

And here I thought you were a self made woman...

;)

[nonickname96.livejournal.com]

Well, it affects me in-so-much as i try to LEARN from the past and avoid repeating the same mistakes over and over and over (you get the idea) again.

But in general i tend to live my life without looking back much. The one exception is what i told you about my brothers (well, especially the one brother) and going to school. I figure that as we start having more of a relationship as adults I'll be able to let go of that, though... I hope.

♥

[innerly.livejournal.com]

it's part of me, of course it does... both in good ways and bad

[photodiva02.livejournal.com]

In some ways, yes and in some ways, no. I try not to make past mistakes.

[castlelady.livejournal.com]

It does on occasion.

[popfiend.livejournal.com]

It depends.

But we are the sum of all that has gone before.

[uawildcatgrl.livejournal.com]

every day of my life.

[kathyrene.livejournal.com]

The past is always with us...

[babystar620.livejournal.com]

Yes. Sometimes in good ways sometimes in bad but its definitely a constant

[ziyda.livejournal.com]

If I don't keep the past in mind to some degree, I am in danger of repeating my mistakes; that's a yes.
I work on unweaving the bad parts of my past that I allow to rule my present. My present and future come in handy as antidotes to regrets.
When I succeed at bringing the past here to a good purpose, it affects others, which affects me, in a good way.

[childeofloki.livejournal.com]

All the time.

[beloved-juno.livejournal.com]

Actually, not really? But in a lot of cases, it probably should, so I'm not entirely sure that's a good thing.

[billzy.livejournal.com]

Yes, everyday!

[heardthatnoise.livejournal.com]

There are times... I try to remember that I am more than my past.

[cerebralpig.livejournal.com]

Gosh... I would hope so!

[the-ravyn.livejournal.com]

Is that the same thing as saying, "Sort of pregnant"? ;)

[the-ravyn.livejournal.com]

Well, it does help.  Hee! ;)

[the-ravyn.livejournal.com]

I am...it's MY past that affects me, not anyone else's! :P