ret·ro·spec·tion noun

1.the action of looking back on or reviewing past events or situations, especially those in one's own life.

As I am always growing physically and mentally, I forgot to live in the moment. We as people strive to fill our agendas with activities and appointments and lessons and meetings that we hardly get a chance to breathe and appreciate the dawn and the day that lies before us. Students, like myself, push through and work from September to June just to taste the "freedom" of summer and sleeping in until noon but when I look back in retrospect, my some of my best memories are somewhere tied between those notorious school months that can't end soon enough.

Retrospection can be nostalgic but it can also help you make better choices for the future. Being constantly consumed in your today life isn't a problem as long as you are fully aware of knowing it is not permanent. I personally believe it helps with strengthening character and gives you the ability to learn more about emotional intelligence. Looking at the bigger picture never hurt anyone and can help you decide what your future can hold. It can decipher your choices by looking at what the repercussions could be and how each choice has an aftermath. "Learning from your mistakes" is popular synonymic saying from learning from reviewing and applying experience into your future.

Being only seventeen, I clearly haven't lived life long enough to be sharing my "wisdoms" but I try to take each day and live the most I can to fill up my life with happy memories and sad memories and a large handful of embarrassing ones but when looking in back in retrospect, I have started to live my life a lot kinder and simpler and doing more for myself and the ones around me that make the bigger picture a whole lot better!