The Past is tied directly into the future. Daily we unknowingly plot our future. We burn bridges that haven’t even been built yet, we rip pages out of our lives that we will need and all without seeing it coming. This makes me think, would it matter to me if my life was different. If I went back in time and moved to another state or country would my life be as complete as it is now? Would the vacancy of what I have now touch me? Would it even matter to me? After all if that happened I wouldn’t have any recollection of my current living. I don’t think I would miss what I have now. You can’t miss what you never had. I find that saying funny. It’s true and false at the same time. You cant miss what you never had but the fact that you don’t have it can drill a hole so deep and dark and moth eaten, filthy that the feelings would be almost identical. It’s not a question of “will the past affect the future” the past will affect the future. The events of yesterday always have and always will determine the day we see tomorrow. There’s no getting around it. Even if some sophisticated person tries to hide or erase the archives of our history. Even if a well known trusted friend, or a scholar on an intelligent pedestal tells us what did or didn’t happen. Weather or not we believe them the future will happen. History is its own entity that doesn’t care if we believe what it has done or has in store for us. It will continue to do its job and keep the things that we did a moment past in our present. No matter how long we live. As the good book says: Shall ye reap that thou hast sewn. Weather or not you know that you sewn it.
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Fantastic. Great imagery. I’ve always enjoyed reading your responses to the questions of the day because you always seem to know exactly what you’re talking about and how to say it, and this is an excellent example of that.
I agree with you. The past is the past, no matter if you loose your memory or history books are erased. What happened in the past is permanant even if you dont remember.
I really liked what you said. The begining is good and it has a good grabber it made me want to keep on reading on and on and on. I agree with you on alot of things you said. The quote at the end did give it a spice. also the saying”You cant miss what youve never had” it gave me a diffrent intake on that saying.
I really liked what you said. It kept my attention and apparently everyone elses.
You really went into depth and made me think about this blog a little more than i did when i wrote mine.
The past is the past and your right it will always be with you no matter if you do lose your memory or it is erased. you body will always remember what it has been threw, your body has a mind of its own and it remembers how things feel.
Very good entry, i enjoyed reading. When you say that if us as a human race don’t have any memory at all and it wouldn’t really matter if we were who we are, now that’s good because its true. If we have nothing to remember, it’s not worth living. We get up every morning knowing we have to do what we have to do because we know that it will affect our future.