moving forward

When you don’t have a choice about moving back, all you can do is move forward.

It’s the kind of advice you’ll hear from people who have done spectacular things—that their back was against a wall and they didn’t have the option to do anything but fight.

It’s those kinds of stories that often justify self destruction, the manic impulse to tear down everything so that there’s no direction to go but up. 

But there’s another truth—not just the countless people who find their back against the wall and give up, but the fact that this is life. This is time. This is the way in which we are stuck existing.

We couldn’t go any direction but forward even if we wanted to—for our backs are always up against the clock, never allowed even a moment to stop and reflect.

What other direction can we go besides forward?

Thank you. Let’s have a great day.