Future Focus

The future is a gray amorphous blob waiting to be given a form.
Our past decisions form the core if we wish them to,
for its our conscious decisions that determine its shape and color.

Should we allow our past to make our decisions for the future,
I believe that's how we stumble along our journey,
time and time again.
Instead, let us take the past as a roadmap for the future,
marking the potholes and shortcuts.
The past exists behind us for a reason,
that reason being that it has taught us lessons
time and time again;
Mistakes of the past should never haunt us,
because they are behind us and cannot catch up to the present
as long as we keep a strong, steady momentum
towards tomorrow.

What our future becomes is entirely up to you and I.
The present is that canvas, and the past is the failed works
of yesterday.
Make this next piece your masterpiece
if only to make an even greater expression tomorrow.
The future is upon you, it is upon me.
Don't make the same mistakes today
that you made yesterday.
Learn from the past, live in the present, strive for the future
of yourself and the world as a whole.