The Jail of Memories

Concept

Memories often imprison our hopes. Even an obsession over a single moment can bring a whole life to a halt. It's the present anxiety over a dead moment that holds the key.

Anxiety's purpose is to help us detect emergencies and danger. Memories don't embody these traits, and personal history should be threatening no longer. Yet our bodies react to thoughts and experiences alike; they can't discern. By focusing on a reminiscence of life, your body will respond by producing the emotions associated with it. Your recurrent feelings, then, shape who you are. 

Freedom is the ability to shift attention toward the present moment, live by our vision of the future, and exile the past as the cell guard of our fulfillment. 

When you find yourself helpless in the memory loop, trying to ignore it won't work anymore. You need to address it. To fight-not to flight-you can't run away from what has departed. It's you who is doing the chasing. You're pursuing a ghost. You need to acknowledge it, become fully aware of it, and then find the way to disarm it consciously. 

Attack it with all the reasons you're not vulnerable to it anymore. Disarm it completely, dissect its power and argue back. Take the key back. Pick to focus on what is ahead and break free from your wing-cutter memory thought pattern.