Navigating Self Comparison W Your Past.

Why we are so stuck on the past? Nostalgia, the biggest set back when we want to live.

                    Navigating self-comparison with past versions of yourself
When I look back weeks, months, years ago I somehow distort my remembrance with nostalgia and limerence, believing that once was such a perfect time. I feel as if I'm always looking back, romanticizing how good the past was and how if the opportunity was presented to me, how quickly I would go back. But was I really happy? Or am I comparing myself now to who I was in the past, believing that was potentially the best version of myself.

It's bittersweet. Knowing once you we're someone so amazing, so catastrophically achieving it makes you feel good about yourself. But it also makes you wonder where in-between the blurry lines you changed. This common misconception is a weight we carry throughout ourselves. We look at our past selves assuming this was truly our “prime”. The most detrimental times are overseen with rose colored glasses. Learn to take them off.

Nostalgia is altering, it battles you. Nostalgia is a rift, a tide that breaks right before the wave is formed. It makes you lose your presences; it keeps you stuck not only in the past of what something or someone was but also in who you we're. Admitting versus blaming. Our first look when we fail to succeed is within ourselves, we automatically go straight to making excuses and reassuring ourselves through the discomforts of reality. “What happened?” “I used to be so ….” “I used to have ….” this piercing word USED TO. we're so keen to be comparing and judging this person we see now, but why? The idea of "Happiness" can only been seen in hindsight.

Your past paves the routes to your present, but doesnt define your future. Dont let it.