[sixtiessoul]

Hey everyone,

i was just wondering if there were anyone here who has a very hard time letting go of the past. Girlfriends and relationsships gone astray, letting old friends go, people who've died...mostly traumatic things that yer can't abide by.

I've been having obsessions that have kept me up, and been dealt alotta psychological damage by people, but I'm pretty obsessed with time now. Losing it, thinking I wish i could go back 5 years, a year, a month, a day...it's gettting worse.

Anyone else feel this inability to detach from the past? What're yer thoughts on that? A bit difficult innit?

please respond, even with an Aye or a Nay. hahaha.

Thanks!

Good health to us all.

doug/dj/that70sboy/sixtiessoul

 

[Guest]

a very serious
Aye
interesting post--- and i like the sure fire way to get the poll: aye or nay
doesnt get clearer than that....hshahahahah
lets see what others post......thanks -today

 

[pfpc]

That has been a big AYE for me. Although the more that I have come to accept my situation, the more my thoughts drift from the past to the future. I view this as a positive step of course.

 

[falling_free]

Aye matey aye, I miss the smell of the sea and the pillaging and fighting and the endless quest for gold on the deep blue sea

ahh shiver me timbers

 

[Chris]

yeah, It's become a dangerous obession of mine. I'm completely obsessed with the past. Everything I talk about relates to the past in my life. The first love I had, the highschool years. I can barely walk around my old neighborhood because I constantly remenis. It's very scary. I'm certain ive passed the prime of my life. Nothing will ever be as great as when I was 17. Nothing. And I chase it everyday. I miss being a teenager more than anything. I tell myself I wish I could go back to highschool. And im only 21! I feel 40 with this DP having taken over my life.

 

[terri*]

I suffer terribly from the inability to not think of people, things and events of the past. I, too, feel it holds me back more than anything else in my life. It's always good to know one is not alone with their obsessive thoughts.

Saw this old movie yesteday and stayed depressed the rest of the evening. Splendor in the Grass. Here is part of the poem of which they use some of at the end.

What though the radiance which was once so bright
Be now forever taken from my sight,
Though nothing can bring back the hour
Of Splendour in the Grass, of glory in the flower:
Which having been must ever be;
In the soothing thoughts that spring
Out of human suffering:
In the faith that looks through death,
In years that bring the philosophic mind.
...

Thanks to the human heart by which we live,
Thanks to the tenderness, it's joys, and fears,
To me the meanest flower that blows can give
Thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears.

Wordsworth...Ode:Intimations of Immortality

ummm...maybe you had to have seen the sappy movie to appreciate the poem.

Anyway, I'm a definite yes.
terri

 

[Guest]

as a person desperately struggling to let go of a certain someone from my past, I will have to say yes. Or "aye" if I was a pirate I guess. Which I think I may have been in a previous life by the way.

 

[Guest]

yea i always think about the past and the happiness i felt at that time and then i look at my life today and think of how lame it has become how ive waisted my life and future, i just cant think of the future and have no goals all i think about is being happy something i have trouble being, i think i am obsessed with happiness and havin fun

 

[Guest]

Sixtiessoul:

I've been having obsessions that have kept me up, and been dealt alotta psychological damage by people, but I'm pretty obsessed with time now. Losing it, thinking I wish i could go back 5 years, a year, a month, a day...it's gettting worse.

Aye

 

[Guest]

I think of the past a lot, but it's more that I don't want to, I do cos of the happy times etc but I've been findin' that my past thoughts are trying to get mixed in with the now and that's not good cos I'm havin trouble tryin to find one happy mindset and it sux!!! I do think of the past but when I do it just sometimes seems irrelevent cos I know what should/could be happenin' but it just makes me feel mixed up

 

[Guest]

I just really want to say aggggggggrrrr like a pirate- why is that so funny??? thats just a great sound..hahaha c-ya

 

[falling_free]

I want to be a pirate

 

[CECIL]

Yes I constantly go over my past and regret a lot of decisions I've made.

"It was so stupid to do/not do that!"