Tuesday what do you look to?
Do you dwell in the past, or look to your future?
Everyone answers this prompt:
Marce: I definitely look to my future. I know, I do have a traumatic past to run from and that is reason enough not to dwell there. However I prefer the idea of possibility, of improving the world as I know it and leaving a mark---all of which are possible in the future. Even when I wasn't consciously aware of how dire my past was, I really would prefer to think of the future not to erase regrets, but to make something more worthwhile there.
Emil: It's really more about the future for me. Well, I'm not particularly proud of who I was in the past; I wasted quite a bit of time. That's one thing to consider. The appeal the future has for me is the fact that it's novel, it's unwritten, it's the proverbial tabula rasa or blank slate where anything might happen. I like having a hand in my destiny, which can only happen in the future.
Ida: Sometimes I do get caught up in the past, but I make a conscious choice to look to the future. In my past I see a broken girl I can only pity (case in point, I was called Eponine for a time). I don't want to be her again. I try to remove myself as far away as I can from her.
Mark: Is it bad that I look to the past? There are so many things about it I don't know: the childhood memories I repressed, the circumstances of my biological parents, the mysteries of my adoptive family....it's all there. The future will always be good for me, but I just need to find my roots.
Darren: The future, definitely! Not that I have nothing left in my past that I want to keep, but it's just that I have so little to hold on there that it's now become more worth my while to create new memories. And what I want to retain from my past, I work into my future. Like my two best friends and my boyfriend, and my passion for acting.
Lize: The past. Admittedly I'm still hung up on the 'what could have been', on the wasted years without a job and married to Jace. I have to get over it all. Someday. Not just yet. One day at a time for me.
Everyone answers this prompt:
Marce: I definitely look to my future. I know, I do have a traumatic past to run from and that is reason enough not to dwell there. However I prefer the idea of possibility, of improving the world as I know it and leaving a mark---all of which are possible in the future. Even when I wasn't consciously aware of how dire my past was, I really would prefer to think of the future not to erase regrets, but to make something more worthwhile there.
Emil: It's really more about the future for me. Well, I'm not particularly proud of who I was in the past; I wasted quite a bit of time. That's one thing to consider. The appeal the future has for me is the fact that it's novel, it's unwritten, it's the proverbial tabula rasa or blank slate where anything might happen. I like having a hand in my destiny, which can only happen in the future.
Ida: Sometimes I do get caught up in the past, but I make a conscious choice to look to the future. In my past I see a broken girl I can only pity (case in point, I was called Eponine for a time). I don't want to be her again. I try to remove myself as far away as I can from her.
Mark: Is it bad that I look to the past? There are so many things about it I don't know: the childhood memories I repressed, the circumstances of my biological parents, the mysteries of my adoptive family....it's all there. The future will always be good for me, but I just need to find my roots.
Darren: The future, definitely! Not that I have nothing left in my past that I want to keep, but it's just that I have so little to hold on there that it's now become more worth my while to create new memories. And what I want to retain from my past, I work into my future. Like my two best friends and my boyfriend, and my passion for acting.
Lize: The past. Admittedly I'm still hung up on the 'what could have been', on the wasted years without a job and married to Jace. I have to get over it all. Someday. Not just yet. One day at a time for me.