You’re either moving forward or going backwards

That’s all.

Aside a small break from time to time to reassess, regroup, and reload, life is movement. You’re either improving or degrading.

And as we age the mechanics of the body certainly don’t improve, but if you kept active and keep your mind learning, you can stack skills so you can make up for a lot of the youthful energy and optimism that may be showing signs of wearing and thinning.

But there is only one way of facing life as far as I am concerned, and I had it since I was a young teenager. I mixed two aphorisms, an Italian one:

Don’t burn bridges behind you.

And an English one:

We’ll cross that bridge when we come to it.

And I came up with my own rather Kurgan-style one:

We’ll burn that bridge when we cross it.

There is no reverse gear in my mind. Nor have I ever really found use or need for one.

It does require two things though:

Absolute self-knowledge, and, total honesty with yourself. That way there is no incongruity with your actions or why you do what you do, which means any errors you make, as we all do, will at least be honest errors.

Which is about as good as it gets.

So.

Avanti!