We must always look forward, further, in order to anticipate the future, predict the challenges it will bring... we cannot sit idly by and say that we do not know what will happen in the future, because if we let events shape our future, they could dictate a scenario we do not want and if we let others make our future, they will give us the future they want and not one we envisage.
If we do not choose the future, we will be choosing the past. Our past might be glorious, but it cannot dictate our present or our future. We are not required to free ourselves from our past, because it lives in our conscience, but we have to free ourselves from staying in the past. Our present should be our starting point and the future should be our target.