Every day we make decisions that put us on a specific course. They plot a trajectory for our lives. We make plans and imagine our future around them. But subsequent decisions can rob past choices of their meaning. Or alter them irrevocably.
It is not uncommon for succeeding decisions and actions to slowly undo previous hopes and dreams. We might not even be aware in the moment of how we are undermining their fulfillment. Until it is too late. Until we no longer share the dreams of the past. Until we’ve either given up on it or we seek a different future.
Choices inevitably affect everyone around us. Oftentimes in ways we’ll never know. In giving up on the dreams of the past we’re rarely the only ones to get hurt.
