"Don't look back - a new day is breakin' it's been too long since I felt this way" Boston told us way back in the seventies. (Boston, 1978) And isn't that what it's all about? Going forward, moving ahead, not letting life consume your breath. An Angel once told Lot not to "look back" and look what happened there. What happens when we look back? What are we looking back at? Our selves? Our past? Mistakes, regrets, mishaps? What is it that keeps us in this state of mind?
When looking back, are we expecting to find that something has changed? That maybe we didn't see things the way we do now? Sometimes, it's hard to look back. Sometimes, looking back brings more heartache than pleasure. Sometimes, the grievances of our past can haunt us. And some time, any time, looking back to find answers.
When I look back, I find how much I have changed. How my state of mind has changed. How my past has reinvented my future. And isn't that what it's all about? The future? Moving ahead? Going forward? Yet how many times has the past controlled what I have thought I could change? The past is gone, but never forgotten.
A new day has broken, it's been too long since I've felt this way...
