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Today’s quote is from Lewis Carroll.
Lewis Carroll is actually a pen name of English Writer, mathematician and logician Charles Lutwidge Dodgson. He is best known for Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass, which became classics of children’s literature.
Lewis Carroll or actually his character, Alice, once said…
“It’s no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then.”
This is an interesting one.
We actually do change over time. Not literally into different people but every experience changes us a little. We learn, fail, succeed, meet people, lose people, change our priorities and see things differently.
If you look back at the past and say, “How could I have been so stupid?”, the answer is simple… the person you used to be doesn’t have the same knowledge or experience you have today. The decisions you make today will be different and hopefully better than you did in the past.
It is ok to look back at the past and try to learn from it. But trying to become the person you used to be doesn’t work. That person is gone.
So here’s the question:
How much of your past are you still judging yourself for, even though you’re no longer the person who made those choices?
Let go of what the previous versions of you and make new and better choices with increased knowledge and experience you now have.
That’s going to do it for today. I’m Andrew McGivern signing off for now, but I’ll be back… tomorrow! Same pod time, same pod station with another Daily Quote.
