What was then, I see, is no longer my reality

Sometimes, at times, I will open my eyes and see. Reality is not all that it may seem to me. With each passing day that continues to go on by, more and more I am left to see, the beauty that is all around me. With darkness still lingering from the past, full of saddened memories of what was then, my perceived reality. It is realized by me, that through the darkness that I had perceived to be my set reality; that there was a blockage of my mind. Fit to only perceive, that the darkness that I felt inside of me, was to be the set fate of all that I was yet to find, and all that reality was ever going to give to me. Silly me, now I see, this set fate of my reality to be, was not such a thing. While mistakes and past memories may still be felt, I no longer believe, that what was then my past, is now the set fate for all of my days. My mistakes may be always here so that they will not define me, but refine me.