Does the PAST really matter?

Say you are married, been trying to have a baby with your husband for the longest time, and after being physically and verbally abused by him for 7 years, you found out that he was infertile. He is now paranoid and locks you up at home accusing you of committing adultery, abusing you more than before. You finally decided to leave him and are going through a divorce now.
In the process, you chalked up huge credit cards debts, borrowed money from helpful friends, and became pregnant (which you eventually decided to go for an abortion) with a boyfriend with whom you were using to rebound. You then turn to drugs and alcohol to escape from reality, knowing that you are just being scared and that you are going to have to face everything eventually.

You have finally got life back to normal and you meet a guy that you feel you can spend your life with. He is promising. He is good-looking, is charming, has a good career, got excellent academic qualifications, and is caring towards you. The question now is…

Does YOUR Past really matter?

Are you going to allow the past to haunt you?

Are you going to deny yourself of something good that will happen for you because of YOUR PAST?

Would you allow yourself to delve into depression using YOUR PAST as a justification?

Would you start to think lesser of yourself just because you did not have by society’s standard a “respectable” past?

Would you allow others or even worse, yourself, to give yourself labels like divorcee, drug abuser, alcoholic, and etc?

Are you going to tell yourself that he deserves someone more “pure” than you because of YOUR PAST?

Hoping that he will prefer someone with a cleaner past as compared to you so that you both need not worry about any potential social stigma?

Does the past really matter?

Don’t live in the past because you can never change it…
Don’t worry about the future because tomorrow may never come…
Instead, embrace the present because the present is NOW and it is also a GIFT.