DON’T LIVE IN THE PAST

 

                DON’T LIVE IN THE PAST

            Don’t live in the past. Move forward. Look at the present. Use every new moment creatively. Time is like a river. It flows forward; does not stop anywhere aimlessly, takes new jumps and crosses new places.

            What is the charm in repeating the past?  Whereas it can be a little delightful, it can also be massively grave.

            In the past, wars were crude; life styles were stagnant; people had both harmony and disharmony among them. Most of the rulers were auto-crats.; only some of them were benevolent.

            It is true that history repeats itself both positively and negatively. But why should we ignore the present and remain attached to it.

            Human mind is a room of memories. Some of them are new, some are old. Why to keep the mind retain old rubbish? People like dusting, and cleaning, and even washing every corner of the house almost daily. They get rid of old, stale, old-fashioned things in whatever way they can.

            They do not go on collecting the junk into piles.

            As you clean your dwelling area every day and get rid of old, useless goods and chattels, so should you clean the areas of your mind every day. 

            Get up every morning with a clean mind to receive new knowledge, new ideas, and new plans.

              Note: the past is dead, It is not going to revive itself.

                 The future is uncertain.

                  The present is in your hands to do new things.

                   The English poet John Keats (1795-1821) said: Heard melodies are sweet but those unheard are sweeter.

                    And another English Ralph Hodgson (1871-1962) said:

                    Time, you old gipsy man

                     Will you not stay,

                      Put up your caravan

                     Just for one day.                                                       

                       

            Yet another English poetess A. A. Procter (1825-1864) said:

                       

                         A place in the ranks awaits you,

                        Each man has some part to play ;

                        The Past and the Future are nothing,

                        In the face of the stern To-day.

 

Finally: This old saying: Don’t dig the old graves.

 

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G.R.Kanwal

25 June 2026