your past in certanily your past, and thats how it should remain, if you have changed your ways. it'll just cause trouble if it is brought up again. any self-respecting person, i think will see the person differently, no matter how uch they love and know them.
and what do you mean by 'who you really are.' if you've changed and all, than 'who you really are' dosn't exsist.
i see what u mean sis...it really is a matter of theory and practice. it is easy to sit here and say what i am saying in theory, in parctice it is much much harder.
i myself lived this. it was absolutely hard. i thought tho,,, if this person in special to me and vice versa, it wud only make sense that i respect them enuf to tell them abt my past...
it is inevitable that the perception of the person be altered. definitely. but that is just a consequece. and if that person is truly tied to u as the person they have met...the past shudnt matter, it will serve as a warning and a guide for him/her to take care and make sure u assist the person to not make the same mistakes again. this is especially important if u are planning to spend the rest of ur life with that person...life partner...life includes past present and future.
just the same, and i tried to identify this in my last post 'who u really are' is complacent with ur past....what makes u who u really are is ur past...u are nothing without ur past, as experienced with amnesia etc. ur past is the moulding process of ur current personality and is edited every second.every experience, every mistake, every second affects us in ways which we may or may not be aware of...
perhaps if the person we tell sees something in us that he or she is not too happy abt, they may be able to attribute it to the past mistake and jst move on, instead of quarreling and fighting on the matter till he/she finds out the truth,...
i gues it is upto the individual and how much self respect they have for themselves, the perosn they care abt and the relationship between them.this is the case for both sides. the one with the mistakes shud respect enuf to tell and the reciever should respect enuf to admire the truthfulness and nobility.
but thats just me sis...i dno.

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