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One of the hardest exercises known to human's is to forget what has gone before.

The tendency is to lug into today and tomorrow all the mistakes and failures and hates of yesterday.

Eventually you can't stand up under the load.

So learn to forget the past.

Did someone do you an injury, or say something mean about you, or treat you harshly yesterday?

Then now may be just the time to examine any resentments you may have and practice forgiveness.

Two men who had been lifetime friends had a falling out.

They went to elaborate lengths to avoid each other.

After several months, one of the men fell ill and was hospitalized.

A mutual acquaintance persuaded the other to visit his old friend.

“But what do I say to him?” he protested.

“Don't worry,” he was told, “just act as if whatever had come between you was over,

in the past, and forgotten.”

It worked.

The minute the two men’s eyes met in the hospital, their friendship began anew, stronger than ever.

There is a healing in forgiveness.

It mends broken relationships and makes everything new.

But what about self-forgiveness? Did you commit a sin? I hope you are sorry.

Sir William Osler, said that we should live in “day-tight” compartments.

Each night, he said, we should pull down a great mental curtain, shutting out the past, and another great curtain,

shutting out tomorrow, then go to sleep, unburdened by the past or any anxieties about the future.

Suppose you knew that this was your last day on earth.

What would you do with this day?

How would you spend the remaining hours of this last day?

Answer that and you will have answered how you ought to live every day.

Wouldn't you want to pack it full of the greatest experiences—of love, goodness, fellowship, wonder, joy—everything good?

Just as people brood over yesterday, they worry about tomorrow.

But if you take care of today, tomorrow will take care of itself.

So, forgetting those things that are behind, reach forward to those things that are ahead.

Live well today and come to tomorrow in the strength of right thinking and right living.

- NV Peale.