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Look Forward


We have eyes on the front of our head and not the back.

We face forward. 

It’s life’s way of telling you to look towards to future.

Not face back on what’s behind but what is infront of you.

Sometimes we don’t want to look forward because it means that we are turning our heads from the past. 

We don’t have to forget it or act like it never happened.

We just can’t let it be what we are looking at.

The future is coming up and you’re needed in it.

You cannot go back to the past, it doesn’t need you, and many times, you don’t need it. 

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