I’ve been thinking lately about an insight by Brianna Wiest, who notes there will come a time in our lives when we won’t feel the need to “look backwards.” And not only that, we won’t feel a need to “unpack the details one more time.”
After we experience a trauma in our lives – a death of someone we loved, a job transition, a health crisis, a dream that does not come to pass, it is tempting to look back and to replay all the details as if by ruminating we can forge a different outcome. But of course, this is impossible.
The only different outcome that awaits us is found in the future, not the past. What Wiest points out is the further we choose to move into the future, the less likely we are to choose to unpack the details of the past.
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