Trees can’t change the rings inside their trunks. It’s a record of their past experiences and environment.
We also carry evidence of our history within us, fortunately we also hold a mechanism that allows us to transmute our relationship to that history.
The events exist, but they don’t belong to us or define us. We are only tethered to the past for as long as we agree to be.
The work is to release everything that does not help deliver us to our highest good, and install gratitude as the default alignment.
This is the way.