Never forget your history

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HISTORY FORGOTTEN WILL BE REPEATED

To forget your history is not to lighten your burden; it is to destroy the foundation beneath your feet, leaving you suspended in a weightless, rootless present, forgotten and lost. When you forget your history, you will not remember the hands that carried, shaped, moulded, and guided you; neither will you remember the mistakes of the past that caused retrogression, and stagnation, making you susceptible to repeating those mistakes.

Your history is your root, it is not your destination; but you must be aware of where you are coming from so you can understand, and be focused on where you are going. If you don't know where you are coming from you might return there without knowing. Your struggles, your fall, your grit, are all part of your history, and they have made you who you are today.

Your scar is not an ugly mark, it is the evidence of what you have survived, a testament that you have met the sharp edges of the world and you won. To forget that pain is to disarm yourself, to make the next fall a surprise instead of a familiar challenge you are equipped to overcome. To forget your history is to rob yourself of the evidence of your own strength when you need it the most.

To remember your history is not to live in it, it is to carry its wisdom, not its weight; you take the lesson from the wound, not the bitterness; you take the courage from the victory, not the arrogance; you take the love from your roots, not the limitation. You are not just living a life, you are continuing a story that began long before you and will echo long after you. Make sure the chapter you write today is worthy of all the chapters that came before. Honour them by building upon them, use the ground of your past to launch yourself toward the horizon of your future. A tree that denies its roots cannot reach the sky.

To a better you, Kamikun John.