The past doesn't matter. People cling to it because it allows them to ignore the present.
Everything I know and I am and I have seen felt done past present past now then before now seen felt done hurt felt focus into a something beyond words beyond beyond beyond and it speaks now and it says. Stay. Fight. Live. Take it.
To say that you can't see echoes of the past in what I do would be absurd. Everything that has preceded me has affected me.