You are soooo righttt!!!

Those that don't have a conscience keep on looking backwards. My words have always been " I have a conscience, I can walk forward without looking backward".

@TimeOutForMe I envy you. I'm tortured not by my past, but by my shortcoming which made that past possible, and clouds my future. This is not my conscience speaking, but the sense my shortcomings are intractable and the past is destined to be my future.

@TimeOutForMe I will say I wish I could learn from my past without it dominating my life. Everybody makes mistakes. Does that mean sociopaths are fortunate, because the past doesn't bother them, but people with conscience are consumed by it?
Only if sociopaths can't see right and wrong applies to them, and 'succeed,' is their psychopathy relevant. I think a system of reward-punishment applies on some level. Maybe it's a mental illness which allows them to do what they do. It's not my problem.
I'll embrace my imperfections and slog on.

@Storm1752

"I'll embrace my imperfections" is a good way to move on and make a rewarding difference to self or other along the way

@TimeOutForMe But easier said than done. I SAY I'll "embrace my imperfections," but that's more of a hopeful aspiration than a reality.

@Storm1752 you know best about You then