I am told that there is a proverbial phrase among the Inuit: 'A long time ago, in the future.' Let the children see our history, and maybe it will help to shape the future.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
The future for us is the foreseeable future. The South Asian, however, feels that it is perfectly realistic to think of a 'long time' in terms of thousands of years.
We have to keep an eye on the future with a sense of the past in every passing moment of the present.
How paramount the future is to the present when one is surrounded by children.
One faces the future with one's past.
Let them look to the past, but let them also look to the future; let them look to the land of their ancestors, but let them look also to the land of their children.
While we can remember the past, we cannot write the future. Only our children, the future of our community, can do that.
They spend their time looking forward to the past.
For every minute, the future is becoming the past.
Children aren't just our future. They're our present.
But if we learn to think of it as anticipation, as learning, as growing, if we think of the time we spend waiting for the big things of life as an opportunity instead of a passing of time, what wonderful horizons open out!
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