Can we see where we are going by looking backwards?

​Day 448 of Des McCabe's Personal Development Exercises

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THE JOURNEY OF REMINISCING
 
It is only when we look back,
years later, that we really see
where we were at that time.
 
It is only now, in this moment,
that we can understand
what happened back then.
 
And we wonder,
​what if.....?

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PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT EXERCISE
1.   What do you need to look back at?
2.  What do you now understand that you didn't back then? 

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