Well said! The past doesn't exist. If you keep re-living it in your mind you perpetually keep recreating it as your future. You are not a victim of circumstances  or some evil entity, your majority thoughts and core beliefs (in your subconcious) create your reality. Most do this on auto pilot with programming we got mostly as kids.. You can take conscious control of this process. Through affirmations- sets intentions,  gratitude- opens the heart,  meditation - connects to the divine, and imagination - the power of creation.