I'm not much for sitting around and thinking about the past or talking about the past. What does that accomplish? If I can give young people something to think about, like the future, that's a better use of my time.
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Something I've noticed as I get older is that I do think about the future more. It's all positive thinking.
I really don't spend time thinking about the past. I think about the future. I'm not stopping.
Even in high school I was very interested in history - why people do the things they do. As a kid I spent a lot of time trying to relate the past to the present.
One gains a double benefit in writing about the past, conjuring up how things might have been, and at the same time acquiring a different perspective on the present.
I've always tried to live in the future and think about things and how to make things better. If you have great-grandchildren around, and their pictures are looking at you, well, that's the future.
I like what the future holds. I don't like thinking about the past.
That's the way I've been educated: I always think about what I missed and the things that you did, you did them, so you don't have to think about them any more.
I don't think about the future. I don't think about the past. I just think of what comes into my head at the time. So that might be about the past, that might be about the future. Or, the present.
I do believe the most important thing I can do now is to help young people understand the past and prepare for the future.
How we think about the future and the past determines everything about how we think about our situation as human beings.