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 User  charmedidentity 
 Topic  Haunting pasts 
 Message  Why is it that the pasts haunts us when we least want it to?
We are humans after all and we do commit mistakes from time to time. Those are some of our characteristics and so what if we have some skeletons in our closets, who doesn’t.
But why some people are determined to revieal those skeletons to make us feel so badly about ourselves?
Thanks for replying.
Irina 

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 User   insphered soul | 2005-12-01 |
 Subject  untitled 
 Message  first thing.............. trigun was kick ass..................... second thing. i believe that the past haunts us so we will never forget the bad deeds we have committed, its there to teach us about ourselves and how we can change, its there to control the monster within. if you can understand that 

 User   Darke_Valentine | 2005-11-04 |
 Subject  thus spake the geek 
 Message  "because we are human, we can learn from our mistakes and correct them" -Rem, Trigun

Yeah, there had to be a geek with a relevant anime quote, but it’s still relevant. The past is there because we can always learn from it, as long as we don’t dwell solely upon it. Those people who air the skeletons in their closet all the time are those who cannot tear themselves away from the past. They try foisting their pasts on others to try and escape it and turn to the future... Or they’re just angsty and need a kick in the teeth ^-^; 

 User   smartblond | 2005-10-31 |
 Subject  Venting 
 Message  Some times people just need to get things off their chest and express themselves to feel better. Like we vent in our poetry they vent in their conversations. We just need to be there for them to express themselves to. 

 User   SavedDragon | 2005-10-05 |
 Subject  untitled 
 Message  Psychologically dismantled, eh? But we alll suffer the same syndrome of past reoccurances, dwell not on what happened, but rather on whats to come. Everyday is a gift...thats why they call it the present. We fear many things, when we want to the most we remember and shed that tears of unwelcome. Its not happiness of overcome it, or the fear of it happening again. 

 User   J W I | 2005-09-06 |
 Subject  star sight  
 Message  are past is what has created our insightfulness
its what brings fear to the front line of hope
sure every soul has a haunting ghost
following them every moment of the day
the greater task is not how we deal with our demons
but how we over power our wrongs
and turn our choices into emotions
and thus turning our emotions into art  

 User   Emma_closes | 2005-07-18 |
 Subject  untitled 
 Message  Well, I was going to comment...but I think that anything I say after Rain’s comment would just be pointless.
Then again most of the things that I say are pointless. 

 User   Raineyes | 2005-07-15 |
 Subject  untitled 
 Message  We let our past haunt us or we run from it or we face it. . .either way until you face it you will be haunted running and tired as hell.

"Those who live in the past will never have a future. . ." but "Those who forget the past are damned to repeat it. . ."

You have to let go but not forget. . .face it. . .it’ll get better. . .till you do, get ready to be tired and screwed and futureless. . . 

 User   idlewriter | 2005-07-07 |
 Subject  untitled 
 Message  We choose to let our past haunt us--it’s part of human nature. a thing called self-conscious--be glad you have it--it’s a good thing....
you know the old saying "the past catches up with you", well it’s true for every one..believe it’s painful, but it needs to be done...the things we’ve done in the past and the reminder of it yrs. later is only a way to see what mistakes we’ve made and to learn from every single one it....
to those who choose to reveal it to us---sometimes it’s a mistake on their part, thinking it’s not going to hurt you--sometimes they’re oblivious to that...but to those who know the pain it causes you, then it’s b/c they’re afraid of their own past so they choose to rant on someone else....
-stacey- 

 User   Rokhal | 2005-06-24 |
 Subject  untitled 
 Message  "But why some people are determined to reveal those skeletons to make us feel so badly about ourselves?"
Because they’re manipulative snakes. Stay away, protect yourself.
Or they’re really trying to help, and you just think they’re only doing it to hurt you. Or they’re socially inept and have no idea they’re causing you pain. 

 User   WolfStar | 2005-06-23 |
 Subject  untitled 
 Message  Because the past has a habit of creeping up later.
Some people wanna know what the deal is on their own rather than finding out later and being surprised or hurt by it. 

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