Can we really bury past!

Can we really bury our past and move ahead, I feel we always carry them along as a baggage, which if left idle, would make our future more difficult. Have we forgotten those days, when just walking up to a girl and talking to her used to be devine experience and our friends hiding in the corner trying to listen to what I was talking to her. Are we willing to forget someone, who would have stabbed us on our back, and even though publicly we may announce that "I have nothing to do with him/her) but still that pain remains. We can't even forget, the paanwalla, from whom we would have taken our first cigeratte and smoked, leave out all the umpteen other things. There is always an unrest within me, that someday what will happen if I am not left with the past, which even if painful has been loyal to me. We all know, that whatever we are today, it is because of the past, so rather than only looking at a future which is not known, why not look at the past and enrich our knowledge for the upcoming unknown territory.

Atanu