The Four Letter Word That Keeps Us In The Past
"People are asking about the good old days. I say, why don ’ t you say the good now days? ” - Robert M. Young We could say the four letter word we are dealing with right now is “ heat ” . We have already forgotten how much we couldn ’ t wait for our cold winter to be over. We might even have a little anxiety of another cold winter coming. But right now, we are in the heat of the summer. It is time to go out early in the morning, and to walk later at night. It is time to ride our bikes and go out for ice cream if we are so inclined. The fear of winter is far from our minds right now. How quickly we forget what we want to. On the other hand, how quickly that four letter word, “ fear ” , creeps up on us when something triggers it and it is tied to the past. We are living in the present now, as fully as we are able. Yet, something happens and we immediately get transported to an earlier time and pl