People have varying sets of imagination when it comes to thinking about the past, present or future. Some are preoccupied with the future, and some stuck in the past. Both tend to forget to live in the present or, say, live for the moment. Thinking is a process where an individual cannot control the flow of thoughts, which in a way makes them keener to get the outcomes. Thinking about the past can be of two types – introspection and rumination.
“If you didn’t know history, you didn’t know anything. You were a leaf that didn’t know it was part of a tree.” Therefore, history or past events are an integral part of our life, which influence our future actions. History not only tells us how the life and society came into being but it also teaches us about the past civilization, culture, principles, both good and bad, of the past societies, so we don’t repeat dangerous mistakes that caused trouble in the past, as “History is the sum total of the things that could have been avoided.”
