Carpe Diem

Winston Chhurchill once said: "The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you can see." What does this mean? Can I predict the future if I study the past? Well, I looked back at our history (not only the Philippine History, but the World History). How does knowing how dinosaurs and the Homo erectus lived enable me to know the future? Will their extinction be the same as ours? Just a thought.

What if looking farther backward makes me dwell in the past too much? Will it also cause me to worry too much for the future? Is it what people are doing today that we take the present for granted? Again, just a thought...