bemyself

Now THIS 'floats my recovery boat'!

[Editor's Note, how to get that neat box around quotes?]

Robby said:
"I don't act as if my past life never happened either. There are many ways to appreciate our past without harming ourselves. Forgetting is not an option for me. Forgetting selectively makes some sense of course. Generalising my past life so as to say, "See, I've left it all behind me. I'm new and improved! How grand, eh?" is not for me, and would in fact cut out of me the foundations of who I am. I'm the me I am today not because of my past failures hanging around my neck like a pork-chop for the street dogs to play with; but much more because of my creating success from the collective dust and ashes of my past failures. Opportunity knocked, and I answered in spite of my challenges, failures, foolishness, fears. I'm proud of where I have come from, and shame and guilt be damned."