Life can only be understood backwards, but it can only be lived forwards.

• [Life can only be understood backwards.

• Kierkegaard Apparently. Unconfirmed

Connecting the Dots could be interpreted as another way of describing it.

• a past (i.e. a personal history)
• future tense

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