The Framework of the Future is in the Past

Nothing good happens on its own without a past. Buildings need construction plans, cures for diseases need research, launching a new company requires a business plan. People need a past that spurs them on to action.

Some are lucky to have been born into loving, supportive families, others struggled just to get by. But either way, there is no guarantee that someone’s past will yield a successful future.

And what is success anyway? It’s measured in different ways by different people.

So, you see the dilemma here?

It’s all a guessing game. But it’s a game we can control, because regardless of whether or not we came from a loving home what we do with our future is planted firmly in our hands as adults.

Blaming the past never worked. As adults we have the power to step over the past and brush it aside. But this is not an easy thing to do. It’s taken me 76 years to be able to throw off that baggage and begin to like myself.

That’s pretty excessive you think? You’re right. But the point is, I did it. I starved the past of oxygen until it slowly slipped away, and in its place stood a solid foundation for me to build a shiny new future on.

We’re never too old to reinvent ourselves. It’s never too late and we’re never too old.