I've heard it said: "The future controls the present, and the present controls the past."
That is, we do things in the present that we believe will bring us the future we want.
And we understand the past in terms of the present. For example, I have a very happy marriage, so I remember my wedding day as a very happy event. If my marriage had turned out horrible, I might remember the day as the high point in my husband's lying cheating hypocritical ways, and a bad day. The exact same things would have happened, but my interpretation of them would be different.
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Date: 2012-08-15 03:01 pm (UTC)That is, we do things in the present that we believe will bring us the future we want.
And we understand the past in terms of the present. For example, I have a very happy marriage, so I remember my wedding day as a very happy event. If my marriage had turned out horrible, I might remember the day as the high point in my husband's lying cheating hypocritical ways, and a bad day. The exact same things would have happened, but my interpretation of them would be different.