It a well known fact that I like to take walks. Since travelling a lot for work, walking is becoming a treasured pleasure of mine. There is one place I go when I am on one of my walks and that is this little bridge. It really is a little bridge for trains to cross and it is quite close to the centre of town. Always when I go under it, I am compelled to never look back. Just like in the Studio Ghilbli film: Spirited Away. If you have ever watched it, you remember at the end when she goes back through the train station tunnel, she is told not to look back and too keep going forwards.
The same as I go under bridge, I will always tell myself to never look back. Even though I always go back under that bridge on the way home. I use it as a symbolic reminder to myself. A reminder that whenever I look back, I am normally hit with nostalgia, which then turns into regrets on my life choices, the mistakes I have made and the resentfulness of myself for making these choices and mistakes. Going under that bridge and telling myself to never look back, is reminding myself that "yes, I have made the choices and mistakes in my life. Now is the time right the wrong and turn it around before the inevitable."
Sometimes, that is easier said than done. But it is nice to have something to use as a reminder to keep going forward.
Rose
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