Growing up we are raised to look forward to the future. When I was eight, I could not wait to become a teenager and when I was a teenager I could not wait to be an adult. We are always striving to move forward so we easily forget to look back at the past. I know you have heard it numerous times that the past is what makes us who we are today. But that is not the point I am trying to get across. You have a past and you also have a future. Those things are polar opposites but somehow they appear to coexist together. Only you personally know what your past is composed of and have hopes for the future. As the saying goes; "whatever happened in the past, stays in the past".

Let that sink in. The point that I am trying to argue relates to the relevance of your past and to your future. Perhaps you are happy where you are in life or maybe you have bigger dreams and aspirations for the future. However, you are currently living or envision the future; does any of your past partake in your life today or in the future? Maybe that stranger you met five years ago is now your significant other. Maybe the car you learned to drive on is still the car you drive today. Whichever aspects of your past is still a consistent factor to your present, I applaud you.

However, the coincidence of things happening to your past which still takes part to your present is not what I am trying to get across. I am not trying to convince you that things from your past who still have relevance today are something to appreciate and be thankful for... Well, actually take a moment and be thankful for that.

Now take a moment and think about everything from your past that has no standings with you in the present. Do faces of forgotten friends come to mind? Maybe family vacations and times of adolescent tomfoolery flashed into your head. Can you think of the last time you talked to your old friend? Can you think of the last family vacation trip you took as a young child? None of those things take precedence to today but they are still from your past.

There are a bunch of other things from your past that you simply overlook. As we continue to look forward to the future, our past gets buried deeper into the past. As you grew up, you did not have the thoughts that maybe this will be the last time I walk through the halls of my middle school. As you grew up you did not know when the last time your parents picked you up would be the last time they would ever carry you. There are a bunch of last times like last first kisses during the struggles of dating. There are last conversations and last words to friends and family members who are not with us today. The last time you walked out of the house you grew up in. There are last performances, shows and games that one might have partaken in at more juvenile times. There are last hugs, texts, and calls. Without even knowing it, there are lasts of many waiting to happen in the future and even today. So for this article, these are my last words. Never take anything for granted because you don't know if it will be the last.