"Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forward. "

Soren Kierkegaard (1813-1855) Danish philosopher and writer.


Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forward.

Aint that the truth! This goes hand in hand with "If I knew then what I know now...". Man, the power of wisdom and understanding. The sad part is that when we finally achieve it and want to teach it and share it (wisdom that is)- the ones who are seeking it won't listen. They are seeking it in the wrong places... the same places that we sought for it. They too must chase after whatever wisdom they desire, or think that they may possess, only then will they gain the wisdom, wisdom that life isn't a race, or a chase, or something to hurry and get to the finish line...


Hindsight, or retrospection... the fucking beauty of these things.... realizing later that what you did was sort of stupid, and knowing that you can't go back to fix anything about it now... it's a m-f-er! it's a funny thing though... because, just think how much happier people, life, or maybe man kind would be if we didn't learn from previous experience... how naive we would all be...how sadly innocent...no one would want to change... no one would want to grow... no one would try to prevent stupid shit from happening again...

And think of it the other way... if we had all the wisdom we would ever have at birth or close to it... no one would ever take risks, no one would challenge authority.. There would still be no need or room for change... growth... So perhaps we are created exactly this way.... to live forward and understand backwards... because that is the only way that man can survive, when faced with situations that we are destined to fail at...just to learn that you shouldn't do it... Perhaps thats what those seven deadly sins are... anyhow... I'm obviously way too tired, I cant even stay on the subject... guess I'll call it a night.. until the next quote... ! :) G'night.