Turn Around

Even though there is wisdom in the meme that says, "Stop looking back, You're not going that way," sometimes there is wisdom in, "If foresight were better than hindsight we wouldn't have to turn around and look."

My grandfather used to say the later cliche', but I don't know where it came from. Although, the idea that a mistake made more than once is a habit, some of us learn slower than others.

There is also some comfort in the idea that, "Pictures are a return ticket to a moment otherwise gone."

There were fewer pictures when I was young—sometimes. And some of the pictures I've inherited are someone else's ticket, and I wish I knew the story.

Back in the 1960's my mother bought a coffee table.

My mother's coffee table was quite the item. it had a sliding drawer that when pulled open it contained a radio and record player.

She bought some Readers Digest records- Down Memory Lane, and she had several other large records. The song by Perry Como at the link below was one of my favorites.

https://www.letssingit.com/perry-como-lyrics-turnaround-1nj41q7

If you copy and paste the above link into the address bar, (since for some reason I've not been able to share it) the words come up first, but there is little video at the bottom using the song as illustration.

The song highlights the idea of how quickly children grow up. First they're tiny, and year by year they grow older until they have their own children. It is the way God made people; God made life. The turning of life from one season to the next.

And it isn't wrong to turn around once in awhile, as the meme says, "Somewhere on your journey don't forget to turn around and enjoy the view."

Ecclesiastes 7:8 "Better is the end of a thing than the beginning thereof; and the patient in spirit is better than the proud in spirit. ...10) Say not thou, What is the cause that the former days were better than these? for thou dost not inquire wisely concerning this. 11) Wisdom is as good as an inheritance; yea, more excellent is it for them that see the sun. 12) For wisdom is a defense, even as money is a defense; but the excellency of knowledge is, that wisdom preserveth the life of him that hath it." Ecclesiastes