Past Things

Past things are iffy things, especially when you find out about them today. You wonder if you should get bugged by it because it is the past, and it has little or no bearing on the future. On the other hand, it is the past, and while the past, present and future are separate in themselves, they are nonetheless connected and some may say one and the same. Without the past, the present would never be, and that would never give rise to the future. So who says the past doesn't matter. And yet it is the past. What do you do with things past?