It is often said that understanding events occured in the past is necessary for people to deal with troubles of present or future. Some maybe opposed to this idea since the given circumstances are different and modern people nurture knowledge and skills which enable them to manage current of turue problems without understanding the past events. However, from my point of view, knowing the past is definitely important to solve expected or current troubles. This is mainly because people can learn from the past about ways to solve problems and avoid making same mistaks.
To begin with, comprehending the past teaches people how to deal with problems they face. By analysing the past events, people can get better understanding of the past and can apply lessons or knowledge they obtain to current or future problems. For instance, I took Toeic test for ten times until I got the perfect score. Although I thought the test was easy whenever I took it, I always failed to get the perfect score. Therefore, I started to analyze my test scores and found out that I was very weak at some certain grammar parts and repeatedly made same mistakes such as not reading the passages or questions throughly. Therefore, after correcting my bad habits and improving my english ability based on my analysis, I could achieve my goal, which was getting the full score.
Moreover, well knowing the past reduces similar mistakes. This is due in large part to the fact that people can understand the possible problems better by looking back their past wrongdoings. By finding causes of the mistakes people made in the past, individuals prevent themselves by making identical mistakes and it increases the possibility to overcome current difficulty. To take an example, my boy friends constantly broke up with me after certain period of time and it hurt me a lot becuase I didn't know why. However, becaus I didn't want any more break-up, I asked my ex boyfriends the reason. Finally, they told me that I spent too little time with them. Fortunately, as a result, my relationship with the current boyfriend is being still maintained since I make constant efforts to spend more time with him.
To sum up, having good understanding of the past is certainly essential to manage current or future problmes. The reasons are people can find a solution to troubles from the past events and stay out of identical mistakes. On the whole, people can live a better life by having knowledge of the past. |