We are at war with the past because our anger is always towards something that has already happened & looking at it we react emotionally which means we are trying to change it, which is impossibleplace a year ago, a month ago or even a second ago or across time in your past life cannot be changed. Somewhere & sometime in the past, we have picked up & absorbed the belief that the world & its circumstances should shape up exactly as we want.
When our internal desire of a certain type of circumstances is not fulfilled, or in other words something against this belief happens, our instant reaction is one of the various forms of anger & we tend to try & change the incident that has happened in a far-off past or a past that has just gone by. We keep replaying a revised incident, with words & actions that we would have liked & that suit our convenience & we also keep nullifying the actual incident or remain in a un-acceptance mode towards it. This is like fighting a war with the incident. We tend to do this inside our minds, repeatedly, even realizing somewhere deep within, that it is impossible.
