the race between the past, present and future

has your past ever caught up faster than you can run away from it? has it overtaken you, only to become your present again? you look behind your shoulder, see no shadows of your past and just when you thought you were safe and far away from it, it peeks at you from round the corner and jumps out at you. BOO! hello past! chances are you didn't see the shadows of the past behind you coz it was already way ahead of you.

my past always seem to worm its way into my present (and probably the future too). it's a blurred line between my past, present and future. the past is the present. the present is the past. they are one and the same. and sometimes, the present is some variation of the past. the mutated version. like paralogous genes. genes that have a common ancestral gene but diverged from the parent copy by mutation. (haha i couldn't resist drawing a parallel to that gene thing coz i was just reading it!)

so you see, you don't have to delibrately or unconsciously turn back to the past. even if you are making a conscious effort to look ahead and walk away, the past would still slowly, but surely, creep up on you. there seems to be no running away from it.