We hold on to the past in two different ways: We cling to the very best times, and we cling to the very worst times.
We reach back to those best moments because we want to relive them, and to recapture the feeling we remember. We hold on to the worst times because we so desperately want to change them, through the benefit of hindsight.
But the danger here is that by doing so we can actually miss seeing more good times, and we can blindly walk into more bad times, simply because we are too busy looking back, whilst moving forward...
© Westley Nash (2018)
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Never wise to try to go forward by looking backwards. A girl can run into the strangest things. Always a gift to begin the day with your pondering. Have a good one on here, Westley:)
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It's certainly considered a health and safety risk lol ;-) Thank you, the same to you.
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I always tell my son: “Your head sits on a neck that turns to let you see where you’ve been. But, your eyes point the same direction as your feet for a reason; keep moving forward.”
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Absolutely true :-) We have to learn to take what we experienced to help us move into the future. No time machines in this life ;-)
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“No time machines in this life…" None of us are Doctor Who!
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Sad but true ;-)
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I believe in learning from my past as I move forward. I call it growing pains. lol
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In many ways that's the process at it's core, from what I can tell anyway. We can't change a past mistake, but we can use that event as a way to avoid stepping on the same traps; so to speak :-)
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I recall this from somewhere? We walk backwards into the future. Our present is determined to a degree by out past. How we let that past, good or bad; influence our present is the key.
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I think you nailed it sir :-) Take with us that which we have experienced yesterday, then use it today to help us experience something better tomorrow.
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