Someone once told me that "now" is only an 8 seconds time frame..these words I'm typing are part of my past now. Things happen to fast and too quickly for the human mind to process and...savor. We cannot perceive everything and that thought saddens me, what if I missed something along the way? I don't want to. I want to remember everything. I want to remember everything that made me happy...sad...angry but memory is such an unreliable source, yet it is our only key into the past. But why is the past so important to us? Most people would agree that the past makes us who we are. I know people and have heard stories about people that spend their whole life digging from the past to discover who they are. It is true that the past is part of our identity...but so is our future that lies ahead.

As unknown and mysterious it may seem, it will also soon be a part of us. Thus, we must embrace it and occasionally say "Screw the past, focus on the present and onwards"...because sometimes we forget how important it is to live the now, live for what lies ahead. But I also learned from my 18 year journey that the past must remain to be an integral part in the self too...in the light of commencing towards the future, you must never forget where you came from and how you got to where you are.
