Post mortem to the present moment

Some people have the view that if they take up the past for contemplation they can somehow learn from it and solve the problems of the past. However, one should understand that when one gazes at the past, one is invariably looking through distorted lenses. Whatever one thinks the incident/experience was like, in the present moment it is not quite like that. This is why people have arguments about what actually happened, even a few moments ago. It is well known to police who investigate traffic accidents that even though an accident may have happened only half an hour ago, two different eyewitnesses, both completely honest, will give two different accounts. Our perception is personal and therefore the memory that arises out of it is relative. If one considers just how unreliable such memory is, then one will not waste mindspace thinking about the past. Then one can let go. One can bury it, cremate it, commit the ashes to the winds and be done with it. There is no meaning in lingering in the memory of the past. Why carry the coffins of dead moments in your head? If one does, then one is weighing oneself down with heavy burdens which do not really belong to him/her. Let all of the past go and you have the ability to be free in the present moment. The only organ of the human anatomy that the past deserves is the middle finger.