Middlesex+2

"past isn't dead, it isn't even past" I agree with this on some levels, but I think the past is a very ambiguous term, and its impact is as such. I think depending on what the past is, it affects us. For example if yesterday I ate a whole batch of cookies, I am not going to feel well that day, and I will probably regret it, but a week form then, no, it will not affect me. And that is the past. However, if I get arrested for sexual assault, that will affect me. That will affect what kinds of jobs I can get, who my friends will be, meetings I might have to go to, that would affect my whole life, but it would be an action in the past. ( I got this example from a movie I watched recently). Many people say, the past is the past, and everyday is a new day, and granted, the past is the past. No one can change what has happened, we can only work to live with where we are, and make what we have work. Everyday maybe a new day, you have a new chance to get good grades, to not procrastinate, to be a good friend, to eat better, to sleep more, whatever you want to do, each day you have a chance to try and do those things. But from what Faulkner has said, one can also comment on how we are made up of our experiences. We are merely past experiences all rolled in one, for example, everytime I hear "Don't forget to remember me" by Carrie Underwood, I cry, because when I was in England my friends made me a going away CD and that was the first song on it. There are many things about ourselves that would not be so if we had not experienced our pasts just the way we did. So I think I don't know whether or not I agree with this quote. I see substance on both sides, but choosing one does not seem possible.