HOW TO STOP LIVING IN YOUR OLD GLORIES: LIVING NOW
I had a neighbor who once worked in the army and had stopped due to an issue that happened and was fired without any benefits. I was working at a salon near home and so he loved coming to chart with me and the clients. It used to be very crowded and interesting, salons are mostly so. One thing about him was he always loved to talk about the times in the army over and over again. It got to a point where he would repeat the same stories the hundreds time, you could literally say the story with him for it was like a poem. Alas Past Glories!
He was not an old man like you may be thinking or mentally unstable, he was perfectly fine. He just loved to talk about his past most often because he really didn't have anything to show for himself, he was without a job, money was a problem, clothes were starting to warm off, he wasn't thinking or looking like planning to do something, the experience he had was too much for him to get up.
What are past glories?
Past glories are achievements one gained in the past, it can be academic, business, love, travels or anything good accomplished.
Past glories can also be events attended or beautiful times in one's life that happened in the past. It depends with an individual what they found enlightening.
Is it bad to talk about past glories?
Totally not. Past glories are achievements of life one can never forget. They are probably times when one was most happy. It's okay to talk about them to friends or family. It's good to remember old times it helps boosts mood and even confidence knowing you managed in the past means you can do it better or excellent.
What is not right is living in the past! Yes you had those best times and you should be proud of yourself for the great times but don't live in those times, live in the now today. Past glories are awesome but in the past make more glories everyday that would make you happy like you did.
What makes people to live in the past?
Your past is a part of you that can never be removed or deleted, though scientists are working on many technologies to be able to delete and install memories in a person. Whether that is successful or not that won't mean it never happened. Each one has a past good or bad all make up who we are. I hear many people complain and wish to have not been born or never to have had a bad past. Now let's face reality it's not easy going through a bad past but it's harder not conquering it. Work towards making a better day each day. It's all about you, no one else you. Help yourself heal faster by living in the now.
Situations and life's hudles sometimes press Soo hard that the good things flash away in a short time leaving you with nothing to show. Looking around every one is doing better and to feel superior or to make people respect you, you talk of how great a person you were. Most people according to studies who talks too much about their past have nothing to show. Learn to fight hard to be great all the time. It can be stressful sometimes how people tend to belittle you or look down on you that you feel like just starting to lift yourself by talking about yourself, you know it's those who are nothing that talk too much about themselves and be careful how you talk you may just chess your helpers away thinking you can manage when you need help.
Can you gain respect from people when you talk about your old glories?
Well, respect is earned not forced. Am sure by now you know that when you treat people badly they tend to return the favor. You are a great person despite your state. You are who you are! Nothing has changed! Yes life has dropped some things in your life but remember you were born alone without those things from your mother's womb. You found them or rather earned them. You can still earn them or build something better. You are you, try these words and see if it will not work. Uplifting yourself in talks makes you sound like you are bragging and no one would want to associate with a bostiful person.
Quote: You are in the now not in the past make each day each time memorable.
How to live in the now
Whether you are going through something or not it's never easy to live in the now. Many things turn to tost and make you forget that you are in the now. Follow the following steps to living in the now
- Understand where you are
Many times we get so busy with worry, fear and doubt forgetting where we really are or who we are. Sometimes work and life stress us and make us too busy for things that really matter. Work, worry and life will never stop, it's you who needs to stop and stat it all afresh. I hope you got me, stop and listen to yourself, sit down and think! Who are you, where are you. Are you in the old days or you are where you are? Those good old times were perfect and you are still perfect just know where are you and who are. You are not there, you are here now, what you do how you do it will affect your life. If you don't stop living in the past you are going to live a miserable life. Do something about yourself you are here now, don't forget that.
- Have a plan
It's very easy to say these things but hard to actually do it. You now have realized where you are, now what's next am sure by now you have have the zeal to do better but how? Know that it will not be easy to just get there it will need you to work on it with your all, sometimes you may loose and many times win, don't give up, work on your plan till you get what you want.
Never let your past define your future you are perfect just the way you are with your flows just work hard to create a better tomorrow.
- You can do it too
Look at this you managed to make it to where you are, just means you can get higher than where you are. You are able to see the light because God is not done with you. He ha just began, it doesn't matter if it's an Illness that has left you in bad shape, guess what use it to get up and do something about yourself normatter what happened you can do it. If you have those beautiful stories it means you can create them again.
- Nothing/no one should define your happiness
Many have fallen so deep that they fail to stand because they put there trust in people and those people disappointed them. Well people are people they are prone to so many flows, the only person you can trust your happiness with is yourself. Let happiness come from within you, then nothing will be able to break you normatter how strong it can try.
- How can you restore your old glory?
Well glory is Glory there is no old or new it's just there on you. Whether time passes, get old you are still you, some things may change, your eyes may grow feint but your glory still shines. Don't let anything dim your glory, always be you and even when it's hard work on it and get up. Even when you feel like you can't do it anymore, push yourself. Situations are there and some are so bad that you can't think getting up is possible but guess what it is possible.
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