You Are Not Your Past

You are no longer the person you were before. And the mistakes made by that person are not your destiny - you don't have to repeat them again.

You can learn, grow, and develop without being limited to the impulsive responses chosen by the previous versions of yourself.
You are not attached to your old coping mechanisms because you have successfully outgrown them and learned to survive in new ways.

You are no longer the company they used to spend their time with: the people you used to have fun with, the friends who once made you show your worst side, nor the loved ones who wanted to see someone else in you. Your true self is not a reflection of who you used to spend your time and energy on, or who you previously loved. You are not the people who made you what you were before, because you have decided to become someone else.

You are not a victim of people who hurt you. You should not live ashamed of yourself or afraid of the injuries that another person might inflict on you. You don't have to carry around suffering, obsessing, and old traumas with you.

You have the right to let go of anger and resentment and leave behind all those bad memories. There is no longer the need to react to everything in terms of pain and frustration. You can become a whole person again.

You are not the story you used to tell yourself. You are not your failures, disappointments, inadequacy, incompetence that you have convinced yourself of. You can change your story. You can begin to love who you are.

You don't have to keep criticizing and belittling yourself because it's easier than accepting yourself. You can create a completely new personality. You can finally step out of the shadow of your shame.

You are not the bad things that happened to you. No matter how much you have suffered, what trauma you have gone through, and how many years you have told yourself that it will never get better, now you can change your story.
Realize that you are not your past. Not today, not tomorrow, not the day after tomorrow. Right now, you can make the decision to get rid of everything that hurts you - rejection, fear, frustration, anger, pain - and start over.
Start with a clean slate as someone who knows the future may be different. Who knows that the life of his dreams is still ahead of him.
Start as someone who knows that who he was 10 years, 10 months, or 10 minutes ago has nothing to do with who he wants to be now and in the future. Because the past no longer has power over you.