The past: dead yesterdays?

Is there an age or year of your life you would re-live?

I saw someone today that I knew back when.

If the past is dead, why do we seek it?

Familiarity?

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If the past is dead,

why does it drive our imagination to relive it?

Longing?

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If the past is truly dead,

why grief for it?

Desire?

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Was the past really better than today?

Will tomorrow be worse than yesterday?

Comparisons?

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My dad grieved over lost yesterdays.

Was the present not enough?

Confusing?

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Why does the past evoke such strong emotions in us?

If it’s dead?

Human.

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The past may be dead.

But because we lived it. Loved in it.

We can’t let it go. Nostalgia.

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We grief.

We mourn.

We rage against yesterday.

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Yesterday’s gone.

But those feelings live on.

In our heads and our hearts.

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The good.

The bad.

The worst.

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The pretty.

The beautiful.

The ugly.

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Yesterday is dead.

Gone.

But not lost.

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Yesterday is dead.

History made.

Not forgotten.

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Don’t go searching for the future in the past.

Remember it so you don’t repeat it.

It’s the past for a reason.