looking back, while often painful, can teach you a lot. somebody (i forget who) once said that it's a shame we don't live our lives in reverse........we'd be born at an old age and have all the experience and wisdom we need to get through life capably. and then we'd die as infants, curled in our mother's arms.
not such a bad idea.
but it's not as good of an idea as how we currently do it - we live our lives going forward. which means we have the backward to look at.
and the backward can tell us a lot.
we see where we've been and why we might not want to go there again.
we ache.
we ache with regret and we ache with what might have been. and maybe even with what should have been.
but the aches are there to teach us. without aches, most of us wouldn't learn diddly.
yep......sometimes your back is the most important thing.
and it's nice when you have someone to watch it.
