Through The Red Gate Community Forum

Kierkegaard expressed it well: "Life must be lived looking forward, but can only be understood looking backward."

To some, history is not important -- a boring school subject. Understandable. But how do we know who we are if we don't know what has shaped us? What has shaped our parents in raising us? What shaped them? "If we remember, we can respond" is the phrase used in the book. Is this not important?