A Bell Curve in Time

Life is a bell curve. We live in the present, at the top of the curve, where the events of most import to us are in the recent past or near future. But our lives stretch into the past, and are not isolated from it. Everything that we have seen, everything that we have done and felt has shaped who we are today. We cannot escape it, no matter how far in the past it may be, no matter how much we would put things behind us. Likewise, our future is shaped by our current situation, and what we do today cannot be totally undone, if at all. We live with those irrevocable errors we made in the past, and those we do today will stay with us until the far end of the curve.

At any instant, life is but a frame in the film of our lives, the past having been projected, the future still in the reel. But there's always the preview of coming attractions. :)


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