Today is the beginning of the rest of one's life. To cope we need education, friends, faith in ourselves and perhaps a higher power, and an awareness of who we are as individuals. A few stones we polish and facet into gems by experience, and are worth keeping. Others are ores that have been smelted and cast into sculpture rivaling Remington, Picasso, or Brancusi. Most stones, however, are excess baggage that should be discarded.
Some people carry their stones as millstones around their necks.
They are unable to see ahead, because the weight bends them over so they can see only where they will step next. Check your backpack. We cannot change the past, but we can change how we remember it. The image can be good or it can be bad. I find my old stones could be placed by the road.