Backward

Life is a great adventure.  Most of us work hard to improve our lives.  We work hard, we look for ways to advance a career or gain experience for a better job.  Most of us work to fix up or buy a new and better car.  We work to upgrade the house with new paint or a bigger TV.  Seems like we are always moving forward... on to the next big thing.  

I find it intriguing that relationships follow the same cycle.  We meet someone new.. we work to improve the relationship - to move to the next level... best friend or boyfriend/girlfriend.  We intertwine our lives and soon we are married and our children are best friends.  And if a relationship ends we are off to the next one... platonic or romantic we take the mistakes made before and we vow to be better the next time... and hope the next person will too!

But why does it always have to be done with forward momentum?  What if we went backward?  Why cant we take this new and improved us with the knowledge of how to be a better companion... a better friend and why cant we apply that to a past relationship?  

Once in awhile after charging forward with determination and ambition I think it is a welcomed surprise to find what you may have been looking forward to gaining in life by going backward - looking to the past.

Life is full of surprises ... don't burn a bridge, you don't have to close all the doors you walk through - you never know when life might circle you back for another visit.