If thinking too much about the past can imprison you and tie you down, so can thinking too much about the future.
This post joins up with the one on "living in the NOW".
Thinking too much about the past is no doubt the bane of most of us, and blaming oneself for the past is a futile, time-consuming exercise with no useful output. At the same time, thinking too much about the future is useless, because the dynamics are just too many in today's world. Those silly notions of "where will I be 5 years from now" are a real joke. Today, where I am - I could have never ever predicted or planned to be 5 years ago. Same goes for the personal side of life, where too much planning into the future robs the present of its spontaneity.
To be spontaneous is liberating! To analyze the past or predict the future is imprisonment!
