In the present... and stuck in the past... always facing the past, filled with regrets and lingering doubts... or perhaps filled with nostalgia for a gone-by era, a golden time when things were so much better than they are now. All of that is stuck in the past...
We, as individuals can be stuck in the past, reliving past glories, reliving past shame, running back and forth between the past and the present... To the extent that we drag the past into the present and end up reliving the same moments over and over again. We become out of touch with the present, always looking at the world through "past-coloured" glasses, never seeing what is, but what was....
Cultures, groups, communities can be stuck in the past again. People in the church who long for the by-gone era of the Tridentine Mass... people who renact the age of the Vikings because they want to be warriors... People who think that hunter-gatherers from 20,000 years ago were the real utopia and we need to go back to that... All of them looking to the past for something that is gone, never to be recreated.
Where do you live your live? Longing for the past? Reliving the past? Shunning the past, but always turned towards it?
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