Reminiscing Of Home.

Recently I was up at my childhood home on a Thursday. Which is my habit and took our two dogs for a walk, which they like to make a habit too.

We headed off down the creek and crossed into next-door’ s property, which used to be ours and went on a bit as I have done a time or two before, but this time I decided to go even further and crossed into his next-door’s neighbour’s property, which too once belonged to Dad.

It has been a few years since I have wandered around this part of the old property, and in fact it has changed ownership at least once more since Dad sold it.

It was rather strange, as although much has changed since Dad owned it, much remains the same, and despite the differences many old memories came flooding back.

It was good just to wander around and remember various things over a number of years and note the changes that Dad had made over the years, many of which still remain.

I came away invigorated by the experience and happy to be moving on despite the fact that “it is no longer “ours” to do as we pleased.

Looking back is good and I think we should all do it occasionally, if we can get the chance, but we also need to look forward, whilst still living in the here and now. We can’t live in the past or on old dreams. We need to live in the here and now, as we head for the future. We should draw on all our past experience for inspiration as we move forward.

For just as we can’t live in the past, we too can’t live just in the present. We have to draw on all these experiences as we live for the future. What say you? Walter