Joe Lopez:  

An erstwhile friend tried to educate me on the merits of "living in the moment." People come and people go. Don't live in the past. I have to say, I agree with that. It is not good to live in the past. The past, however, has ideas of its own. For that matter, so do the future and the present. Time, unfortunately, refuses to be a neat little parcel that we can put a neat little bow on and set in a corner and say to ourselves, "My, I'm glad that's over. I shan't have to deal with that again" I think often we forget Time and it's passage is a force of nature. Still, the human mind has an unusual propensity for conceits and we quietly hope that the past stays put and behaves nicely. Things don't work out quite that way though. Disgustingly enough, the past is a skunk that sprays us. And here we are with no tomato juice. It sticks to us, clings to us, resistant to our most ardent effort to get rid of it. There is not a moment of our present that exist that isn't tainted by the scent of the past. Except...Expand for more