Building Life

Look to the Future its end as well. Hold tightly to the starting point—then you’ll also hold the far end. It won’t detach from you. For a right beginning has no destination other than a right end. LOOK TO THE FUTURE When a person’s past and present have been lost, their future still remains secure. Someone can take away your past and present, but no one can take away your future. The deprivation of the past has already occurred, and the deprivation of the present is happening now, but the future is a time that is yet to come. In the future, all the opportunities that were possible for you in the past and present are still available, with even greater potential. Therefore, if you have lost your past and present, do not grieve. Instead, plan your actions anew with regard to the future. It is possible that you may achieve such great success in the future that it compensates for all the losses of the past and present. One of the secrets of life is the ability to forget. If your past and present have been ruined, forget them. Forgetting past destruction will instill in you the determination to put all your energy into building a new future. If time were stagnant, you too would have to remain stagnant. In that case, your deprivation would become