I caught myself romancing the past!

As I was making my morning cup of coffee (brand: Café Appassionato roasted in downtown Seattle - I enjoy it so much that I buy it through mail-order...), I found myself mulling about a challenging time in my life over thirty years ago.

Following an intuitive hunch, I had quit my job and moved to Seattle to start a monthly New Age newspaper called The New Times. I didn't know anyone, didn't have money or contacts to start a business, and did everything by the seat of my britches, following my intuition. It was incredibly difficult. I remember thinking to myself at the time, "Some day you're going to look back on this and realize it was one of the best times of your life." (I give details of this in my autobiography Anything is Possible.)

As time heals just about anything, our memories of the past eventually highlight the good things and the negative ones fade more and more into the background. That's when we romance the past! We forget how difficult it really was and sometimes we might even wish we were back there in time where we had felt so relevant, alive, and -yes- successful!

Once I caught myself doing this, I realized I could start romancing my new past - this era of time - right now. I don't have to wait for time to pass.  How will I view today when I look back five years from now? Ten years? Twenty? What positives will I ascribe to this era of my life? Why not go ahead and claim them as mine right now?

Years ago I learned the meditative technique where I got in touch with my future self and asked for advice for current challenges. Once I started doing that and enjoying the information I received, I began doing something else. I began giving messages to my younger selves, messages of encouragement and "You can do this; you will succeed; hang in there; it will all work out!"

Time folds in on itself. Time is a social construct and we don't have to be bound by it. What if  those messages I sent my younger self actually happened and were part of the reason I succeeded? What if I can now send messages to my current self from my future self, telling me what I learned and what I did to succeed with today's challenges?

Why not go ahead and romance the past that is happening right now? That's enough for my morning brain to digest. Time for that second cup of coffee.