Thanks For Everything

I am grateful for my past; the good, the bad, and the inbetween.
Every commendation, every insult, every moment of mediocrity,
All that has come to pass is culminated in who I am.
The sum total of a persons past leads them to the now;
That glorious moment, ever changing, ever constant,
As minuscule as a second, as infinite as forever.
The now perpetually flows into the past, is drawn from the future,
And is the eternal present.
All the love and hate and joy and sorrow that has come and gone
Shapes who we are in this nanosecond of the now
And without the now... there is nothing.

So be thankful for your history, every little bit of it.
No matter how you may despise it, no matter how blindingly brilliant it may be,
Regardless of the pain it may have caused, or continues to
Because without it, you would not be you, and you
Are awesome.