Don't look back (some stupid random thought)

[jkai4ever]

i'm not too sure if this was a more common phrase in a horror movie or just a famous phrase, but hearing today made me think....suddenly, out of a blue, a little philosophical....idea.....

Don't look back, something bad might happen to you.

why would you say that? maybe something really bad might really happen.....
or, it could be indirectly implying

Comments

[aidinhanuninho]

I have to go with the option "by looking back to the past, remember the painful memories that should have been long forgotten....and bring back all that feeling of pain and aches again.....", because it's who I am, I'm just always remember what it made me sad in that time of my life. I just can't forget.
If I wasn't like that I would be definitely much happier!
All I wanted is to look always to the present because I'm also very obcessed with the future and what is going to happen with my life. I just want to live each day without this kind of problems!

[jkai4ever]

yeah, so try to always think, "don't look back, something bad will happen"
I am still unclear about the feeling I get from this phrase.......it's ... weird.... but yeah, think of that phrase, maybe because you would get scared n not look back to the past anymore... =)

[ophelia_stachel]

but may be when we are moving not in a right direction in life we should look back sometimes? I don't know... just to see what we were before. I dont think " dont look back" should be some kind of a rule that everyone should follow to be happy

[jkai4ever]

it is true ...
it was just one of the feeling I got from the phrase....there's other feeling I get from this phrase, but i cannot quite put into words....i don't even know what this feeling is about....confusion a little, uncomfortable yet comfortable feeling......hmmm.....>.>
I sound weirder n weirder every second....-_-;;;

[m_is_4_awesome]

Hello, my new friend! Thank you for friending me. Very kind. Please see my post asking 20 Qs of my friends, so I can get to know you - if you have time or inclination, of course. :-)

The first time I encountered the "do not look back" idea was learning about the biblical story of Lot's wife - my somewhat vague remembrance: they were leaving the destruction of their home, she looked back, she turned into a pillar of salt.

I think it has to do with not getting caught up in the past, in regrets - because it'll make one a "pillar of salt" which I sort of assume has to do with being filled with tears for what once was to the point you lose what could be...

I believe in knowing/remembering/understanding my past, learning from it what I can, but at a certain point, one has to move on... b/c what is done, is done. One should not lose their future by being obsessed by their past, basically.

[jkai4ever]

lol sry, can't fill out 20 Q form yet, but i'll do that later when i get more time,

thanks for the example, i like that pillar of salt....

and yeah, so that's why we should not look back, move forward,
that's why we have eyes in the front and not on the back of the head...

[m_is_4_awesome]

No worries, get to it when you get to it :-)