REFLECT

REFLECT

You don't dwell in the past, otherwise progress would never be made; you don't hurry into the future, or else you might miss your way, but you have to sometimes look at the past to understand the future, and plan better for it. It was Søren Kierkegaard that said, "Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards." 

Times like this affords us the opportunity to examine what we have been up to, what we have done, the things we have left undone, the ones we ignored and those we procrastinated over the course of the year. We might have achieved a lot or very few by out own reckoning, but we must look beyond what we have achieved and into who and what we have become.

Our success stories are never complete without the stories of failure, and disappointment; we do not become successful without first failing, and rising up from the failures time and again to become better persons who eventually go on to achieve great success. Our past shapes who we become and who we become determines what we achieve.

Charles Dickens once said, "Reflect upon your present blessings -- of which every man has many -- not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some." Your journey is entirely yours, you have to make out of it, what you really want for yourself. Look back, REFLECT, but never move backwards, forward is where the future is, and in the future everything is  bright.

(A➡️Z)14➕Z)

John Kamikun

Author, "366 days of wisdom ".