Can you outrun your shadow?

you dont need to outrun your shadow , it is merely a reminder or motivation for you to do better if you made mistakes in the past. and i think we cannot leave an old mistake in the past , we can just make our self more better not to do that again in the future , thats why we have the shadow that reminds us what we did in the past and do better in the future.

Ha ha. This discussion comes at a perfect time as my 5 year old daughter asked me the other day "Why does my shadow keep following me?" as she tried to run from it. As for me, I guess I've never thought of it as a shadow. A shadow is something everyone can see - and I think I've been able to "hide" much of my mistakes. I've thought of these life's mistakes as a sort of dark cloud . . . it's not always there, but at times it forms and rains in my brain. No one can see it, but I sure feel it reminding me of the past.

hi bounce a great analogy also I saw one epidsode of Stargate Atlantis and was hooked last night while waiting for my best friends to pick me up. Yes I guess I am like all the rest some shadow we find keep catching up to us. Much as you want to out run the past some errors haunt you, I keep thinking,tired as i am of this tiresome retirement center, if only when my son talked about how he really loathed his boss I had really pressed him to look for a new job. He did talk about how he should but hated the job hunting business. I feel deep inside had I pushed him a bit he might have really looked . The time then jobs in his field computer programming were prevalent and when finally things exploded with his moron of a boss he was laid off, the job market had crashed. Not just fewer jobs but in our immediate area no jobs and the few that appeared had three or four hundred, I said hundred, people applying for one lousy job. And the other one that haunts me a nd is so stupid as I learned I am lousy with credit cards so have torn them up, is why did I not keep up the cards as I had started always paying off the bill so I had no debt piling up.But it was not altogether my fau lt as I was a county employee of the Orange county p ublic library system. so when our scoundrel of city major and head of the council embezzeled millions of dollars and our county went bankrupt, us library pages got out hours cut back drastically from forty to thirty hours. So my total wages really suffered and I found I was starting to pay the minimum, on my three store credit cards. like an idiot I had not started cutting back on buying things until suddenly I realized I was in huge trouble. I owed 1200 dollars to 'S ears. So I enrolled in a trusted company that helps people get out of credit card debt. they really helped me with my Mervyns account and JCPennys account by persuading those stores to lowe their taxes to bare minimum so I got them paid off completely but SEars refused to budge.The company pleaded with them without success and I did also. the woman gave me a bunch of crap about how my paychedk was not all that bad and I just had to cut back on everything else. I told her I had already torn up my other credit cards and was only spending money onfood and my share of the rent.At that time I was making the huge amount of 6 dollars an hour on a 25 hour week so my 'social security check was gone mostly to help my son pay our rent. my earnings in the library went for food and legitimate expenses like medications as I am a diabetic. I could not pay more than the minimum forty dollars and none of what I paid them went to lower the bill at all so finally I had to just quit as it was just pouring my money down a hole. Finally the debt was outlawed. and I never used a credit card again. I have a debit card which is great as I will not be in debt again. if I do not have funds in my account I will not shop. but looking back it haunts me as the first year or two I kept the three accounts always paid up. then I got caught in a vicious circle, as my hours dwindled again and again and I started to just pay minimum again.So yes our shadows sometimes haunt us but maybe its good to realize you are not repeating those mistakes. they are past and the shadows are just memories really . they tell us to profit from these errors and never repeat them. case closed.

I have my shadow with me right now - it is called fear. I have an AGM on Wednesday and have to justify all expenditure and for the life of me cannot remember what big expenditure it was?? Fear paralyses me. Have to calm down and start looking through purchases for the past year. Just have to calm down. Am at office and should be at home but this has to be done

I don't think you can ever really/truly escape your past.. or the "shadows" of your past as you say. There will always be little reminders, especially if you're still dealing with the repercussions of those mistakes today. I don't have a lot of demons, but definitely have made my share of mistakes. It doesn't drag me down, though.

By mind set I am an giving person so I never felt in that kind of situation till now and I wish and hope in the future I can stay like that. Forgive your enemies its the biggest bullet in there heart and you will be in peace always.

Those shadows are sneaky things and I don't think you ever out run them. The one good thing is that everyone has at least one to get away from though...so when we wonder why everyone is in such a hurry...hmm. I have shadows and bones and anything else you can think of...I stopped running. I got as far as I could and just stood my ground. Get it over with if it has to be..lol.

I have a shadow in my past and I have been trying to outrun it.....for 10 years now. I have to realize that I made a mistake and that I am not a bad person. Everyone makes mistakes.....but it is easier said than done. I am working on it.

I don't think it is possible for us to escape our shadows. I think that as long as we can see our shadow, it will remain with us. Being able to outrun it is not something that can be done.

I am surrounded by shadows as they are constant reminders of what I need to improve on daily. I take my shadows as positive approaches that there is no one perfect person as you just never know what one has gone through in life that can certainly have room for changes. I have a shadow that persists daily into making me a miserable person, each morning but I keep turning on the light as I will not allow it to over power me.

OUTRUN verb: get away from, escape You cant outrun your showdow, it is stock in your mind , but you can learn from it and be a better person. Everyone have a shawdow that keeps cathing, the thing is dont run away from it, face it.

I don't think it's possible to out run it because it's part of you. You can ignore it or accept it, but it's still there. As much as some of us would like to just leave it in the dust, it's always right by our side.