This is something that I've definitely learned in the past while.
I am a very sentimental person. Everything reminds me of someone or that one time. That can be fun, but sometimes it isn't. Like when you can't stop thinking about a person even though you know you need to because you have to move on with your life.
I think I've gotten really good at it though recently. I used to be awful though. For example, for nine months I hated living in Roman Gardens because I was comparing the ward and the people to what it had been the year before. The result? I spent a lot of time shut up in my apartment being antisocial. I didn't have any friends besides my roommates and the few people that had lived there the year before that I was friends with. I had fun with them, but I greatly limited the amount of awesome people I could have known and a lot more fun that I could have had.
In about February, I think, something clicked. I realized I really needed to branch out and stop dwelling in the past. And you know what? I found out that there were some awesome people in the ward that I would have loved to have been friends with for the whole year. I had really missed out.
One of my previous lessons is about learning from the past. I guess this lesson is kind of just building off that one.
The past has already happened. There's nothing you can do to go back. Sometimes it's nice to relive those moments and some memories will never really fade, but that doesn't mean that you should dwell on them all the time.
You have to live in the present. Live for your future. Don't get too sucked into that either though. I seem to have a hard time living in the present, but I feel like I've finally gotten a pretty good hang of it.
Be happy with the present though. Live each day to the fullest. Take chances, do what you want! Don't stay stuck living in memories.
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