Kurt Vonnegut Jr.Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it." (George Santayana)I've got news for Mr. Santayana: we're doomed to repeat the past no matter what. That's what it is to be alive.
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George Santayana said “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” The idea is that if we don't remember the past, we will go through the same things again and again and we'll never learn from our mistakes. Is that really true? Not necessarily. The truth is that we cannot change the past, but we can learn from the mistakes of the past and use those lessons to make better decisions in the future. The problem is that life doesn't always work out as planned.
We don't want to go through all of those things over and over again! But, if we remember the things that went wrong in our past, we won't make those same mistakes again. That's what it means to live life without repeating something you've already experienced.
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