shipwreck

This is all that's left of the Peter Iredale; a once 275 foot-long sailing vessel from Liverpool, England that ran aground in Oregon during a storm in 1906. In spirit of the new year, and using the shipwreck as a metaphor, it felt appropriate to remind people that the past is in the past. We can remember it, we can learn from it, but to continue to live in it is doing a disservice to our present and our future. We have all made mistakes, we have all been caught in nasty storms, we have all run our proverbial ships ashore. But that doesn't mean you should avoid sailing completely. It means you should salvage the best parts from the wreckage, leave behind what doesn't serve you, and learn to do all of it better the next time around. 
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"Holding on is believing that there’s a past; letting go is knowing that there’s a future."
-Daphne Rose Kingma