Acceptance and making peace with the past

This evening, I watched a movie for a class assignment and I got much more out of it than I ever bargained for. The movie was "Saving Mr. Banks" and it is the story of how  Walt Disney worked together with the author P. L. Travers to create the movie version of Travers' book, Mary Poppins.
Travers' father was an alcoholic and as depicted in the movie, he died from the disease. Throughout the movie, scenes from Travers' childhood were shown depicting the common characteristics of living with an alcoholic.
I became emotional during this movie because of my own father. Looking back, I think that my love and sex addiction was created in part by both my strained relationship with my father and his alcoholism. All of these issues have made me very sad for a very long time and I have always thought that I would never make peace with any of it. Lately I have noticed that isn't true, especially after watching this movie. It is so freeing to accept what is and make peace with the past. One can't change it nor predict the future. Always live in the present; it's a gift.