“…but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before.”~ Phil. 3:13
Some time ago my daughter Leah texted me something she heard, "Only a fool trips on what's behind him." How many of us are habitually tripped up by our past. Whether victories or defeats, by constantly going back to them is futile. Our past is history, we cannot re-write it.
Those who attempt to undo the unpleasantries only make them worse; and each time we return to previous achievements, they lose some of their original luster.
To live one's present life in the past is to feed upon stale, moldy bread.
Memories, good or bad, are not the material a person builds his or her life on. Many have mortgaged the present by the past. Don't allow the past to cripple you in the present. Occupy yourself with what is, not what was. Don't waste your time or energy in the past.
As Martyn LLoyd-Jones says, "We must never for a second worry about anything that cannot be affected or changed by us."