In Retrospect

     Walking down a white, bricklayed road, a shining white gate beholds your eye.  The sign above the gate displays "finish" in big, bold capital letters.  Every step closer, you notice that the brick road gets narrower and narrower-- on either side of you, the landscape turns from a sunny, frolicksome prairie to a more ominous, hazy wasteland.  You're uncertain that you should be going this way, but seeing how the gates are still shining, you proceed onward, walking to your proposed destination.  Suddenly, a piece of brick catches your shoe and you descend rather suddenly onto the now 2-person-width brick road.  Scraped and startled, you pick yourself back up, still the gate in sight.  However, you have an urge to look the other way-- how far have I come?  The neck turns.  The vision extends further right than in front.

     An unknown figure with long, disheveled hair is seen.  Wearing a greyish-white garment, she looks up to you, revealing a shriek that kidnaps the soul away from you body-- the thread cut short, you cannot finish to your destination any longer.

     The reason I give this raconte is the importance of looking forward.  That "unknown female" doesn't exactly have to be an unknown female.  It could be whatever impedes us from progressing toward our final destination.  At occasion, we may look back into our past to reflect-- there's nothing wrong with that!  However, when emotions come to shore such as regret and hindsight, then the problems start to come up.  This is how man is foiled.  We try our best to think of what's good in the world and what optimism lays ahead of us.  Being with God once more.  Starting a wonderful, loving family (if not yet married).  Blessing others through future works of service.  Overcoming the current challenges we face.  Getting through the day to start anew the next.  As we look and move forward, we may be able to experience more joy than we turn around.  We are here in this world not to look back-- even Jesus said that to follow him, one mustn't do so!  With an eye single to the glory of God, one can move mountains and do the impossible.

    I'm a type of person who ALWAYS reflects about everything.  I'm an introvert.  I'm very introspective.  However, this type of thinking always leads to cynicism and pessimism regardless of anything else I may do.  Those particular emotions aforementioned surface and depression is ready to take hold of me-- it already has, a plethora of times.  Although it gives good fodder for writing material (if you want to look at my twitter which I put on a hiatus until I come back), it will ruin you in the long run.  Out here now, I cannot afford to think like that.  It is one of the ways Satan drags you victim to his vicious ploys to destroy you.

     INFJ or not, turning around may in fact scare you [silly].  Don't fall for the urge to do so unless it's something that you won't regret or feel worried or sad about.  You are here to succeed.  Don't think back on anything that might have set you back a little.  Othello did the exact same thing and look how he turned out in the conclusion of the play.