Why can't you leave the past in the past?

well. because there's certain aspects of the past that a person NEEDS to keep, lessons and warnings, memories of certain people and feelings. if we all just walked around happy go lucky completely we might be in some serious trouble. though i CAN agree that along the way some of that baggage should be unloaded. that's important. can't go around punching the rest of the world in the face and saying " it's ok that i did this because someone hurt me 20 years ago!" keep the parts you need to and keep putting one foot in front of the other.