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duminică, 28 iunie 2009

Looking back...to look ahead

Looking back on your life, you come across a few crucial moments that will stay with you forever. And it is those instants, which stand out from the rest of what u were, that help you get a grip on things when the future does not look so rosy.

Sometimes, you just need to pause and take a look back at all the things that you have achieved. In order to gather the strength to do even more of the things that are on your mind.

We are all achievers, on a smaller or larger scale. We all have something below our belts, no matter how infinitesimal. It's just that sometimes in life, you need some new props, something to push you further into...the rest of your life.

Some people say that in order to be able to live the moment and look confidently to the future, you need to stop turning back. To the past.

But I say that what we were and what we did is a good part of what we are and what we'll be. If you do not take your past in and choose to forget everything you used to be, you may be losing a good chance of becoming a rounded being. And a life with no past, made up of future time only, is a life of no tangible you. Because the man you become cannot get there without the person you were, without your prior experiences, knowledge, memories.

So, let's allow ourselves to delve into the past whenever we feel like it, because it is there that we may find a few of our certainties. And thus, a spring that will catapult us into our future. With new hope and faith in our dreams.

10 comentarii:

Stefania spunea...

a cuple of years ago I decided to delete all my emails and messenger archive because it was to painfull to go back... and about an year I was living without holding any traces and it was fine... until some weeks ago when I fell in love again and I realized that I was doing the exact same mistakes... and I started keeping an archive to loose myself in it. and now I remember those days and it's still painfull, but I don't have the coldness to delete it and to loose everything I have left. it's wrong if from time to time we don't want to grow anymore?

Cati spunea...

I don't think so :)

Stefania spunea...

ti-am pus blogul la blogroll... pe blogul nou :D

Cati spunea...

Multumesc frumos:)O sa il vizitez...

Luana spunea...

You're right -- sometimes we forget to look behind and realize that our lives so far have had substance. I'm often told that I underestimate myself, the first reaction to this being "no, I don't deserve these words"... I forget that others also evaluate me, us, according to our past; we might forget what we did two years ago that helped someone, or that just impressed them, but they won't. Our past adds value to our present and future in more ways than one :)

Cati spunea...

Very well put into words, Luana! As usual, your wording and thoughts are really something...

brightie spunea...

sunt lucruri carora trebuie sa le intoarcem spatele si altele fara de care n-am mai fi intregi, asa cum spui si tu.

zicala 'stop looking back, if you want to move forward' se refera exclusiv la situatiile in care cineva s eagata cu disperare de amintirea unei stari de fapt care nu mai exista de mult, refuzand sa inchida capitolul, care dealtfel si defapt e demult inchis. :)

in alta ordine de idei, ai o leapsa la mine - if you're feelin' playful ofcourse. ;)

alex boldea spunea...

mi-a placut foarte mult chestia asta.

Cati spunea...

Multumesc si welcome to my blog:)

alex boldea spunea...

good to be here, o sa mai trec :)