If you don’t pay attention to the past, you’ll never understand the future. It’s all linked together. You see what I’m saying?” At first, I didn’t. But then, I looked back at the screen, those images moving across it, and realized he was right. The past did affect the present and the future, in the ways you could see and a million ones you couldn’t. Time wasn’t a thing you could divide easily; there was no defined middle or beginning or end. I could pretend to leave the past behind, but it would not leave me.
