We journey through life from milestone to milestone.

Now and then we pause and look back along the path we’ve traveled. We judge the steps we’ve taken and the steps we haven’t. We judge our progress. And sometimes we come up short. The journey we’ve made is less than we hoped. We judge that we’ve not come far enough. We judge that we’ve moved too slowly or too quickly. Procrastinated or rushed. Stayed a while too long or not long enough. We could judge our journey all of these things.

We cannot change the steps we’ve taken. We cannot make them faster or slower. We cannot make them different. The steps we’ve taken are set. They are past.

Yet, our journey is not over. We have more to travel. Past steps do not set the steps of the future.