“There isn’t time—so brief is life—for bickerings, apologies, heartburnings, callings to account. There is only time for loving—and but an instant, so to speak, for that.”
– Mark Twain
Time is much more fluid than we are conditioned to experience. So while this quote may read one way on first glance, I ask you to look again considering there is no backwards or forwards. Consider for a moment that your life has happened in a flash and the idea of progressing forward is nothing but an illusion. Perhaps your life is a spiral folding into itself with the overarching energy you inhabit creating the defining factor.
We are multidimensional and time is multidirectional. Should you find yourself backtracking or wishing to go back, address the nature of how you go back to uplift the action of retracing with a new energy and a fresh momentum. It is natural to replay patterns, but how you do it each time determines whether or not you are going back or going forward. If you run a piece of music you’ve played a hundred times with a different emotion underpinning the score, the piece is felt in an entirely new way. If you’re smoothing a vase on the potter’s wheel and you change the angle of your hands against the clay as it spins around landing against your form in a different way to mirror a changed form in the vase, then the old piece has become something different and may be felt as new.
You may see that we too are constantly invited to the same patterns with the opportunity to interact with the material in a new way. Going back to a project or an artistic expression with fresh energy is absolutely acceptable and not backwards at all. The same is true of every life experience, if you can perceive it all as art. If you, as a base material, have changed, then there’s no way to go backwards — the components are different and will interact differently. As far as I can see from my current vantage point, everything is always changing, so there truly is no way to exactly repeat anything.
What you bring in awareness to the equation is what determines your experience of time and change, backwards and forwards, and this now moment holding you.
Presence and Positivity 