Looking Back
Have you ever tried to drive your car down the road by looking in the rear-view mirror? If so, you probably didn’t get too far very fast. You would most likely never try to go 30, 45, or 60 miles an hour while using only the rear-view mirror to guide your way. It would be ridiculous and dangerous to you and to those around you. This is however the way some people seem to navigate through life. They are always looking back at what happened in their past, but fail to look ahead to see that the best is in front of them, not in the past. It doesn’t matter if you have had a wonderful past or one filled with pain and suffering, the principle is still the same, we don’t make much progress when we are looking back. For some, the rear-view mirror is wishing for what is gone in a relationship, others might look back at a mistake made and wish it could be erased and yet another might look back with a “what if” mentality. It really doesn’t matter what you might be looking back at, the re...