The past is never where you think you left it.   Katherine Anne Porter Life has a funny way of catching up to us doesn't it?  Those old hurts, people, thoughts, actions, etc that we think we left behind us have a funny way of reappearing at, usually, the most inopportune times.  One thing I have learned about leaving the past behind is it doesn't stay there unless we have gone through the process of closure.  If we can find ways to close out our past in healthy ways then the chance that it won't pop back up at those inopportune times is better and if it does pop up the chance that we respond to it in healthy ways is better as well.  But don't think you have left it beh ind in a p lace it cannot be fo un d or for good. The past can always be found, it is not lost forever.  If we can learn to close out our past in a heal thy way then we won't despise it, fear it, or run from it when i t reappears.  We will instead welcome it and the lessons we learne...