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living in the past (Remove filter)

Don't live or forget, but learn from the past.

If you live in the past
sadness will reappear.
If you forget the past
You can't learn from it.

So, don't live the past,
but don't forget the past.

Let it be your guidance
to be someone better
and to make better decisions
for the life you live.

The past is something you shouldn't forget
because whatever it is that you choose to forget
just be glad that it'd happened then not now.
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