What is that stuff painters use to erase the canvas they just painted called? The widow in "What Dreams May Come" used it to erase her beautiful tree. I think we should carry a bottle of that stuff around with us, and periodically use it. Randomly start over with a fresh canvas.

There is no question in my mind that we live inside a frame. Life occurs to us as the images on a canvas, and our perspective of it is the means by which we choose. Consider the times you started a doodle. You looked at it, until you figured out what it looked like, and finished the drawing. That is how we experience life. Our view of ourselves and others starts with a doodle, a moment, a memory, millions of dots of color and seconds and experiences are a palatte and a picture starts to form, seemingly of its own free will. But we are painting the picture. We are moving the brush, filling in and creating form and concept. Sometimes we gather enough dark paint from dark experiences and our canvas becomes a gloomy sort of piece. And other times we find bright colors and make bold lively strokes.

But it is our painting. We can't really change the frame, but it is our life, and we have the power, as the artist, to redo, recreate, and start over with a clear canvas.

I do not think the previous colors and images completely disappear, but they can become the foundation for our next masterpiece. The great artists don't confine themselves to creating what they see in a "doodle" or in life. They take that bit and make it part of their great work.
I am not a product of all my past experiences, I simply use those moments, those colos swashes, to enhance the picture on my canvas.

You are the artist, your brush, your choice. Life is not where you have been, what you have done, what's been done to you. Tomorrow is not limited by every other days beliefs or views. There are still many colors you never even knew existed. Dare to paint your canvas with new colors, and life a life you choose. Seek Joy.