I have many people who have been following this blog for many years. Some are former clients, some are friends, and some people just looking for answers to questions that pop up in all of our lives.
One fellow touched on the topic of invasive thoughts that that pop into his mind without rhyme or reason at different times. He was wondering about them. Would they be with him with him all of his life? What if he developed dementia and spent the rest of his life wrestling with the sins of his past? Trapped in a bubble of thought with memories of something terrible that he'd done when he was drinking, using drugs, or just living on the edge?
For me these are the kinds of questions that don't have answers. We all carry in our brain a huge reservoir of memories, a neural record that probably means little, yet stays with us from the time it was imprinted there. I think that much of our dream life is our subconscious attempting to sort out this huge record of our past, trying to make sense of it all.
My own answer, now that I'm getting older, is to do my best to live in this moment. Because the reality is that all we have is the here and now. Yet many of us - especially those of us in recovery - spend a lot of of our moments in the past or else speculating about a future that we're not promised.
But my experience is that nothing in the past can be changed. As to the future, no one knows what the Universe has in store for us.
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