A New Start

Some people believe they're able to forget their past, bury it, and just start anew. Well, I think this could be possible but it all depends on how this past was and what does it have that we want to hide or bury? Was it a hurt we have or give? Painful experience we passed through or made people pass through? Were we wrong or have we been wronged? All people make mistakes and God is there to forgive and give other chances, but what if the price of the mistake we did was paid by someone else, could the mistakes of the past be forgiven when this person is still suffering because of our mistakes? An Egyptian proverb says "He who forgets his past is lost" I believe it is from the past that you can have an idea about the future...