Do not surround yourself with people who enjoy taking you back to your past or reminds you of how bad your past was, just to weigh you down and also discourage you from starting a new beginning.
Don't try to force yourself to do what you ought not to do out of pain and hurt, just to erase your past. Don't let people tornent you with their words all because they knew of your past.
Be calm, admit that it's your past, no matter what you hear people say, always say to yourself "it's my past not my present", because if you follow what people say, you might end up dying in your past, whereas there is still canan ahead of you, a land flowing with milk and honey.
Let your past be your past, accept and embrace it, don't try to erase it by all means out of desperation. Believe that although you can't change your past but you can come out a changed person from your past.
Your present is more important now than your past, focus and concentrate fully on it. Build yourself and be confident. While people are busy talking about your past, be busy adding values to your present, because you can't afford to fail twice.
Don't forcefully or try to erase your past so you don't end up commiting more errors, instead work on your present till it becomes a testimony that swallows up your past.
See this: a woman barren for 25 years in marriage and later gave birth to twins. Anyone who will spread the news would surely make reference to her barrenness and then conclude it with the twins God later blessed her with. The testimony swallowed the past record.
People don't necessarily need to forget your past, the good news is that it ended up becoming a testimony in the mouth of people.
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