Build a new you.

[gerrerd]

What would you do, or be if you had no past.

[NorwegianWood]

What-ifs are difficult. Perhaps we would be braver, but we would lose our experience and everything that we value.

If there are problematic things in our past perhaps we need to look at ways at overcoming any control our history exerts on us. Let's say we are burdened by failure, guilt, shame, regrets. They are all hard but they are not insurmountable. Generally we are much harder on ourselves than others, however, for big things that we need help with talk-therapy, in all its permutations, is valuable to move stuck feelings.

[gerrerd in reply to NorwegianWood]

The only thing we control is our beliefs about them. I look on good or bad as lessons, then move on release the past we are not going that way.