The Past

 One of the ways to wallow in the past and skip the present is to stay with guilt feelings.  You are guilty for what you did.  Guilt does not change the past, nor does it energize you to act in the present.  Catholics go to confession to get rid of guilt, but it does not change the past.  An amendment is an action one can do in the present time.  Sometimes you need to make an amendment to yourself if you have done some self-harm.  Then do something that brings you some wholeness or repair.  People who slip in their addiction need action in the present time and if they have been in Recovery they know what that is.  The past is done.  Guilt just relives it and that is fantasy.