these are just ghosts that broke my heart before i met you...

old lovers. old friends. old lives. old homes. old morals. old feelings. old thoughts. old dreams.

most things in our life become old and forgotten after a while, even when you swear some things never will. you can be the best of friends with someone for years in your childhood then you grow apart and as the years go on you don't even recognise them in the street.

past lovers can be your world one minute and a distant memory the next. when in love you feel like there is no possible way you could live without them, then a few years after you've parted, you struggle to remember how you lived with them.

friends come and go like seasons. when i look back at the friends i've had throughout my life, i know that all of them served a purpose at that time and that sometimes that's all they really needed to do. some are there for life but most are there for a time in your life, no matter how important or insignificant that time might seem.

too many people try to hang on to things for too long. holding a grudge. staying in love when it's no longer reciprocated. lifelong regrets about trivial things. paths not taken. dreams not fulfilled. making a mistake no matter how big or small.

everything happens for a reason. if your love for someone is unrequited it may be because the person you're meant to be with is only around the corner. if someone does you wrong, you need to assess whether what they did is worth losing a friendship over and if not, holding a grudge is not helping anyone. if a dream doesn't come true, build another one. life is only a rehearsal and would be boring if everything went exactly to plan.

in anything you do, go out on a high note. don’t drag your life down with thoughts of “what if” and yearning to live past lives again that, in all honesty would more than likely be disappointing if revisited. memories have a tendency to make everything better or worse than they actually were.

When one door closes, another door opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door, that we do not see the ones which open for us.

Alexander Graham Bell

Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable.

Sidney J. Harris

Make it a rule of life never to regret and never to look back. Regret is an appalling waste of energy; you can't build on it: it's only for wallowing in.

Katherine Mansfield