CHAPTER XLIV
THE NEXT TIME YOU THINK YOU ARE A FAILURE
If you made a botch of last year, if you feel that it was a failure, that you floundered and blundered and did a lot of foolish things; if you were gullible, made imprudent investments, wasted your time and money, don't drag these ghosts along with you to handicap you and destroy your happiness all through the future.
Haven't you wasted enough energy worrying over what can not be helped? Don't let these things sap any more of your vitality, waste any more of your time or destroy any more of your happiness.
There is only one thing to do with bitter experiences, blunders and unfortunate mistakes, or with memories that worry us and which kill our efficiency, and that is to forget them, bury them!
To-day is a good time to "leave the low-vaulted past," to drop the yesterdays, to forget bitter memories.
Resolve that you will close the door on everything in the past that pains and can not help you. Free yourself from everything which handicaps you, keeps you back and makes you unhappy. Throw away all useless baggage, drop everything that is a drag, that hinders your progress.
Enter upon to-morrow with a clean slate and a free mind. Don't be mortgaged to the past, and never look back.
There is no use in castigating yourself for not having done better.