On the Way from Past to Future

On the way from past to future is the present. For a person, there are results before him/her created by his/her past actions and his/her plans for actions to create results for the future. The question being dealt here is what to look for in the past and do for the future through making the best use of the present.

Our present is the product of our performances of the past and our circumstances - social and natural. Since, our circumstances are, to a great extent, beyond our individual controls and we must concentrate on where we can make a considerable difference, the only thing for us to do is to focus on our own actions.

Present moment is an opportunity before a person to do something for a better future using his/her education and experiences of the past. Our present is the gift of our.past and it is to be further gifted for the future.

What we are and have today are produced by our own actions and circumstances of the past. Since, past actions can not be undone, we can only learn from them on the basis of the results we have obtained from them. The greatest thing to be learned from the past is where we failed or found to be weak in. Although putting blame for a failure on someone else is the easiest thing to do, it must be remembered that alighting a lamp at a dark place is better than blaming the darkness.

The most important thing for someone to accept is that for each of his/her failures and weaknesses, primarily he/she him/herself is responsible and needs reforming him/herself for not to face a similar failure again or remove the weakness in oneself.

Another common practice about a wrong action of the past is to go on repenting and thus getting into a trap of inferiority complex about performance of the self. Instead, the right course would be to learn not to repeat the mistake of the past later and move ahead.

Of course, we must appreciate ourselves for the good performances of ours in the past and take it to heart to improve the performance further later in life.

Since, someone's present actions are going to make his/her future-being, all care needs be taken not to commit any mistake for repenting in the future. The present moment is always the most crucial moment to act and move in the right direction.

This requires a small cool pause in action for thinking on what to do for a good result in the future. The thinking must be on what shall be the consequence of a certain proposed action of the self. This estimation shall guide the person whether to go ahead with the action or not.

Some persons may advice, "Just do it" which may prove disastrous if the action proves to be a mistake by its consequence in the near future. Therefore, it is wisdom to think of consequences before doing and do only what would prove to be good consequently. Such a person is called a visionary about the future.