▶ Your Answer :
It is controversial whether apprehending the past is essential in
order to handle impediments confronting us now and in the future. In this
regard, I strongly believe that understanding the past plays significant roles
in dealing with the obstructions, which are in front of us and in the future. This
is because handling the obstructions can correlate with the traumas which were
made in the past, and human cannot change their temperament at the moment.
To begin with, damage wrought in the past can be obstacle which are
confronting now and in the future. In other words, the problem can be made in the
past, and it can be still left as a trauma. It means retrospecting the past
might offer the solution of hindrances. For example, my cousin sister has a
hard time making friend in school, and the cause on the problem has been made
in the past. To be specific, when she was an elementary student, she was
bothered by friends. After undergoing the experience, she was afraid of making
friend with anyone. However, she tried to settle the problem by understanding
the past. She attempted to think about
how the situation happened and if she also had problem with the experience, and
thus she could realize that due to her egocentric personality, she became alone
in the class. Realizing the cause of trauma made in the past provide her with solution
to throw away the obstruction. She tried to consider others’ feelings, and she
made an effort not to think only herself. Finally, she became much better and
complete individual, so she has made many friends with a lot of people. Accordingly,
observing the past may be chance to find a solution in the impediments formed
now and in the future.
Moreover, it is hard for people to change their character at the moment.
What I mean is that habits shaped in the past are still consistent, and the
habits generate hindrances now and in the future. For instance, nowadays my problem
was to delay the to-do list from today to tomorrow, and my habit was not made
at the moment. When I was an elementary student, I did not my homework perfectly
since I always put off homework from today to tomorrow. And then the habit was
repeated as recycles, and this habit constantly entice me to postpone all works
when trying to complete tasks. Now, this habit became the biggest obstruction
of my life. In this case, in order to get rid of the obstruction, I had to find
the cause leading to the bad habit, and to do that, understanding the past was
needed. I thought of the past, and I could eventually find the cause of bad
habit. It was computer game. After looking on the past, I did my best to stop
playing computer games, and it naturally enables me to finish tasks on time.
Thus, understanding the past can maximize the chance to cast off bad habit.
To sum up, I strongly argue that seeing and thinking the past encourage
us to find solutions about obstructions of our days and in the future for two
reasons I mentioned previously: For that now problems are correlate with the trauma
from in the past and for that bad habit of the past generate now obstacles.
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