Past and Present

The relationship of the past to the present is interesting.  I've been thinking that my relationship to the past, as mediated by my shoddy memory, is a bit lacking.  It can be useful, and it's generally seen as virtue, to move on and not get stuck in the past--but you do lose a bit if that is your natural mode.  For instance, right now I'm really needing to remember things that very much pertain to my present, yet they fade.  So I'm in the interesting position of trying to keep memories vivid for the sake of the present moment, to live in the present moment more fully by also entering into the (somewhat recent) past.  It's a paradox.  We often have to live in the paradox.