Life has a way of going in circles. Ideally, it would be a straight path wed travel, always knowing where we were going. Wed always be able to move on and leave everything else behind. There would be nothing but the present and the future. Instead, we always find ourselves where we started. When we try to move ahead, we end up taking a step back. We carry everything with us, the weight exhausting us until we want to collapse and give up. We forget things we try to remember. We remember things wed rather forget. The most frightening thing about memory is that it leaves no choice. It has mastered an incomprehensible art of forgetting. It erases, it smudges, it fills in blank spaces with details that dont exist. But however we remember it or choose to remember it. The past is the foundation that holds our lives in place. Without its support, wed have nothing for guidance. We spend so much time focused on what lies ahead, when what has fallen behind is just as important. What defines us isnt where were going, but where weve been. Although there are places and people we will never see again, and although we move on and let them go, they remain a part of who we are. There are things that will never change, things we will carry along with us always. But as we venture into the murky future, we must find our strength by learning to leave things behind.
Posted on: Mon, 10 Mar 2014 03:06:12 +0000
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