How do you meet new people when you have a past with manny mistakes?

I have done a lot of things in the past I am not proud of. For the past two years, my life has been on the right track, but, I fear meeting new people, even friends because of my past. I worry that people would pre-judge me if I were to come right out and talk about the past. Then, when I get to know people a bit better, it is akward, as I feel I should tell them about the past, but by that point I fear they won't like me because I didn't disclose that info up front.





Really, I am a normal person, who has overcome obsticles and made the best of my life. All I want is to be able to meet new friends and have people look at who I am today, not who I was a few years back and make judgements about me based on that. How would/do other people deal with these types of situations in meeting new friends?

How do you meet new people when you have a past with manny mistakes?
The people you are meeting are not meant to be your friends if this is how they act. Everybody has a past - including them.


And overcoming things in your past is what makes you the person you are today.





Don't feel that you need to tell them all about your past in the first couple of meetings - it is up to you when, how or where you choose to disclose the information, if at all. Some things are meant to be kept secret and it is up to you what they are.





If people don't want to know you because of what you went through to become who you are today, they are not worth it. Perhaps look somewhere different when you are trying to meet new people, go outside your comfort zone and just take a leap. You might surprise yourself and meet some really nice people.