The past is a part of who we are, the past can even be said to make us who we are. And yet, each person deals with the past in completely different ways. You can have one family with the same parents and in the same environment and yet two children coming from that same family may be completely different from each other. Why does that happen? One may consider an incident a tragedy whereas a sibling may consider the very same incident as great and an event that made him or her the person that he/she is.

Can we completely let go of the past? Or are we condemned to be forever dogged by it? Sometimes this is useful and helpful as it means we do not allow ourselves to make the same mistakes again. However for some people, the past pursues them like a stalker they can not get rid of. It petrifies them and holds them back from living life to the full.