What’s the point in desiring to know the future when I have yet to figure out my past? If I knew my past well enough, I’d understand clearly why my present is what it is…and since I obviously don’t have peace in my present, why worry about the future? It’s only through reflection that we are able to become self-aware…only through reflection are we able to understand before we accept…in the absence of understanding, we accept foolishly, or not at all.