The past is over. I move beyond my mistakes and focus on living in the now.

Mistakes get filed in two places. One is the practical file — what you learned, what you would do differently, the thing you now check twice before sending.

The other holds no information at all. It only replays.

Moving on is largely a matter of noticing which of the two has been opened. The practical one shuts by itself once it has told you something. The other never shuts on its own.

And that does not happen by decision on a single bright morning. It happens the fourth or fifth time you catch yourself opening the second one and quietly choose not to read it again.