“Today is the moment when your past and future meet.”
I have been struggling with how to articulate this idea with out writing some deep philosophy book. Simply stated, what I’ve learned is that our past is important, but we don’t handle its power well.
On the extreme edges we either ignore it or let it cripple us. Somewhere in the middle is where we can use it to improve today and build for tomorrow. Our past affects us, even if we don’t always recognize it.
The crazy part is it doesn’t matter if the past was 10 years or 10 minutes ago. Over the years I’ve seen how the past affects my students. I’ve seen how the drama of the last class took 10 minutes for them to get focused, to the way a movie we watched in class brought back the pain of the loss of a parent.
I have been guilty of not seeing my students fully. Wondering why they just did that? Or frustrated with their work ethic. I am guilty of not considering their past and how it might play a role in their behavior. To use my English teacher vocabulary, we all are round dynamic characters in this life. We all have a past, we all have dreams and goals we want to achieve. And today is the moment when our past and future meet. If we are aware of this I think we can tackle issues with a clearer objective. If we can help our students see that, maybe we can help them build a better future.
It is all Connected 