WHERE OUR FUTURE LIES

“Just because the past didn’t turn out like you wanted
it to doesn’t mean your future can’t be better than you imagined.”

Anonymous

Almost everyone are thinking about the future, about that time that everyone expects
to happen. These thoughts and reflections initiate certain questions which illustrate
connection between future and the past: Is understanding our past the key to our future? Why
should our future lie in the past? Should we runaway from our past and completely disregard
or should we embrace it and learn from it? An answer to the previous questions is, to the
opinion of the most people, the key answer to our future. Namely, most of people believe that
our future can be predicted according to our reaction or inaction to life’s failures and the
unlearned lessons hidden in our past. The experiences and memories laden in our past hold
life shaping elements that have moulded us into the kind of person we are now.
When all of us look back on our life, starting from childhood until nowadays, we may
have recollection of past events, situations in which we felt safe and protected, or where we
had to keep ourselves safe from harboring danger. The opposition of the positive and
negative are interwoven in most of our life experiences and those experiences or occurrences
will determine later on how we react to life and future.
I believe that our future is wrapped in stories that we have actively created and lived.
“Our past has taught us the invaluable lesson that our worth is beyond anyone’s pre-
conception of life or of us. It has taught us that every breath we take, every heartbeat in us is
worth our very own existence and that no matter what and irrespective of the glamour of our
accomplishments, as long as we have lived life to our full potential, leaving every stone
unturned to reach our purpose and our dreams, then our life’s stories will have been worthy
of having been lived. So yes our future lies in the past, because what we thought were failures
where actually invaluable life lessons, our trampoline to an outstanding future.”1

1
Vitarelli, V. Out future lies in the past, Available at: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/our-future-lies-in-the-
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