Consider the sketch I’ve attached.
The fish-hook of life has snagged on your soul’s clothes, and you’re whizzing through the timeosphere, seemingly in one direction. This is true of all of us. We move chronologically – logically through the chronos. (The cosmos [space and time], minus the space)
Being beings, we are free to choose our actions as we whizz along. Our illustrated example shows a very unisexual person experiencing his own irresistible movement through the chronos. It also shows, in the first two images, his decision to look either behind himself – to the past, contemplating, learning from experience, remembering, perhaps hurting – or ahead of himself – to the future, planning, expecting, hedging, perhaps worrying and doubting.
We’re often presented with this choice being a dichotomy: We are free to choose, but we can only choose one at a time. “Don’t look back”, “Plan ahead”, “Those who do not learn from the past are doomed to repeat it”, etc. Even if advice is not being peddled, the assumption is often the same forced choice. It makes sense – in our analogy of a physical person flying through time, the person has only one set of eyes, and they can only look one direction.
But we are thankfully not solely physical beings. Our bodies may age, fail, die and disintegrate – which is fine, by the way – but alongside our body our selves walk the silver thread of time. “Mind”, “Spirit”, “Self”, “Consciousness”, whatever it is, may be constrained in some ways by working through a physical body, but it seems to have its own characteristics. I think maybe its vision is much more flexible and adaptable than our physical vision.
As we see in the final frame of my sketch, our androgynous lady/man has sprouted a number of new eyes, and has suddenly gained the benefit of synchronous hindsight and foresight. He/She/It has escaped the dichotomy physical sight necessitates, and can make decisions based on past experiences and future expectations.
Meditate on this. Is it possible to “grow” new “eyeballs” in your soul? To gain new vantage points without losing the old?
Is such a thing even possible?
On that note, goodnight, and
Shalom.
Free The Field 
Some spiritual traditions would encourage looking neither to the past nor the future. They would say that time is a construct of the egoic mind, and that peace can only be found by focusing 100% of one’s attention on the here and now. Meditate on this: can the past and future be considered as “real”, and if not, why concern oneself with them?
Perhaps a toolbelt approach is called for? We choose what’s real – so for some, the past and future are painfully real, and for others they are almost non-existent. Everyone will find more or less benefit from every worldview, so why not try contemplating only the present as reality, and then try living with the past and future as educator and disciplinarian? If we are the Creators of our realities, then surely it is wise to search for and sharpen the tools that help us Create, not discounting any we’ve yet to examine?