My Birthday

James Elroy Flecker, from “To A Poet A Thousand Years Hence,” written c. October 1910

sometimes i get tired of being me, and i get tired of resenting the human race

Jenny Slate, Little Weirds

Naomi Walker

How to let go of the past:

1. Accept that you are currently in this present moment and going backwards will not stop the time from going forward.

2. Accept that you can not go in the past and replay the moments differently. Everything happened the way it did and there is nothing you can do to change that.

3. Adopt the mantra that whatever is meant for you will be for you.

4. Ask God to grant you the wisdom to accept the things you can not change and change the things you can control.

5. Letting go means forgiving others for the role they played in hurting you.. but also forgiving yourself for the role you played in hurting them.

Have compassion for yourself. Letting go of the past means letting go of who you once were. Letting go can feel like death. It takes time to process and mourn.

Purple

Edwige Fouvry (French, b. 1970)

Sous la lune, 2015

Oil on panel