Life changes, what you were yesterday, you’re not today, love, relationships, friendships all change. People die, pets die, your health changes, what you used to be able to do, you can’t do now.

When Ragnor Lothbrok was in a boat with his sons going to war, one turned to look back to his mother on the dock and Ragnor turned his head back around and said “don’t look back, you’re not going that way”, good advice.

If my mind inadvertently strays that way I imagine holding the strings to all the balloons of my past and let them go one by one. I watch them float away with deep breaths and without any regret.

When the hard ones keep returning, I keep letting go until they don’t come back. It does eventually work permanently. When you can remember without pain, you’re free.