Held and Haunted

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 What memory still teaches or haunts you?

Memory is both anchor and ghost. Some moments we carry with gratitude, replaying them like treasured songs that steady us when life feels uncertain.

Others linger like shadows—mistakes, regrets, or losses that replay when silence gets too loud. These memories hold power because they remind us who we’ve been, but they also haunt us because they whisper who we might have been.

The paradox is that both kinds of memory—those that hold us and those that haunt us—can be teachers.

The lesson is not to erase the past, but to learn from it, honor it, and decide how much of it we want to carry forward.

Here’s the truth we’re taught to avoid: 

We’re told to “move on,” to bury what hurts and only remember what feels good.

But ignoring the past doesn’t free us—it chains us.

Memory is not the enemy.

What haunts us is often what needs our attention most: forgiveness, healing, or simply being named out loud.

Mortality reminds us that time is short, but memory reminds us that nothing is wasted—not even the painful chapters.

“We are shaped by the echoes we carry—some warm, some heavy. To deny them is to deny ourselves. To face them is to reclaim the power to write what comes next.”

This Week’s Action: 

Write a letter to your younger self from the moment of that memory.

Tell them what you’ve learned, what you forgive, and what you now choose to carry differently. In speaking to your past, you free your future.