"What kind of heart doesn't look back?" - From Sara Bareilles' Breathe Again Often times, we are told not to dwell on our past and to focus on moving forward instead - enjoying the present and planning for the future, or at least looking forward to it. Yet there are times when looking back is not only worth doing, but in fact very much necessary. Allowing yourself to recall the experiences you have emerged from in your past is important because it helps define who you are today. It is a crucial building block for your future too as it presents the possibilities of who you can be or are already becoming. If we allow everything from our past to fade completely from our memory, we become empty shells - devoid of meaning and purpose. There is no wealth of wisdom we can draw from because we have conveniently forgotten the mistakes we have committed previously, thus also discarding along with it the lessons we had learned back then. Remembering your past also k...