“How can we live without our lives? How will we know it’s us without our past?” -John Steinbeck I came across this quote and it completely baffled me. It makes a rather good point. Our past is what makes us who we are. Without it who are we? Who we are now is a collection of all memories, and experiences of what happened in the past. So in other words that means our lives are the past. I would also add that our lives are in the present moment too because we are currently living our lives. Think about it though. If we took away every single thing that happened in our lives in the past it would take away who we are. It would be like starting over as a baby. We would have to learn everything again like learning to walk. But it would also take away the bigger things like the events in our lives that have defined us and shaped us into who we are. And even if we don't have a big moment that defined us what about all the little moments that made us into who we are? Life is complicated. ...
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