We look behind us to see how far we’ve come, and sometimes to make sure we know how to get back.
Those two purposes have very different implications. Is this path merely a detour from a larger journey, or is it part of the journey itself? Do I want to go back to the same point from which I left the main trail, in order to resume? Or do I question which is the main trail?
And do we ever know which it is until some distant time when we at last arrive at a vantage point from which to survey our previous peregrinations?
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