I’m sorry but I find myself in two minds about this article — agreeing with it, but with reservations, and feeling uneasy about it at the same time. I agree that we need to look forward, as we can’t do anything about the past but only about now and tomorrow. I agree people should spend time with people and activities that are about where they are going, not about where they’ve been or once were. But I’ve knocked around a long time now. I’m depressed, frankly, by people who appear on, say, TV quiz programmes and say “I’m a retired plumber/policeman/teacher” whatever — I always want to yell, yeah, but what are you doing now? But the other side of the coin here is that (whether we are going somewhere new or not) we are who we are because of where we’ve been, and this has different levels of significance to different people. And although people generally hang on to too much clutter, I have had too many occasions of regretting having cleared out such-and-such books, for example, only to find myself having to track them down and try and re-acquire them years later, because they mattered to me, and still matter to me — they are not just about “the past”. In the long term, as a whole, we are richer than what happens to be going on with current plans and recently unused apps. (But I’m still more interested in tomorrow than in yesterday!)