Hindsight

Karl Wilhelm Diefenbach

The Azlan speaks: 

Without the heights and depths to travel,
Man would know neither up from down.

"Hindsight is a gift from the gods. Literally it is the ability to review times past and learn accordingly.

'The Mortals wrestle with hindsight perpetually, thereby referencing all knowledge up-to-date acquired. From eons to hours, this is the ability to look back, before proceeding forward.

"Balanced between remorse and continuum, this talent is to review what has past most thoughtfully, and glean a wisdom, or a gratitude; to recall how to do as was done, or whether best avoid it completely.

"This persistent review is strengthening to the soul. We all, ever momentarily, use hindsight as our guide to expectation.

"And also there is the comfort: perceiving the ever ceaseless heartbeat and the rising of the Sun. From hindsight we measure and predict that which is to come.

"To this also, we find our misdeeds and subsequent falls from Grace succour our inner divinity, putting reason to what might appear but random - that we might learn those actions that are convivial to Life, from those that would darken our familial hemisphere.

"The cynics contextualise hindsight as the mocking Spectre of an after-effect - saying wryly, that we may never know of something, ere it happens.

"And yet, this is - over aeons to moments - for our travelling souls - the very meaning of its talent that it affords us."

-Gabriel Brunsdon, Finding Self - Second Guesses: Azlander Series