Looking Forward, Looking Back

I think that the process of creation is a process of looking forward. Its not about what did I do wrong its about what can I do better. 
Now that isn't to say that I do not glimpse the places I have been and things I have done in the lens of the rear view mirror, but I try not to spend days and weeks agonizing over what went wrong. Maybe the outcome of an idea did not match my vision, or something I saw or experienced in the past may inspire me in tomorrow's efforts. 

I know people who spend a lot of their time thinking about what used to be, or what should have been, or what could have been. Like there is no room for potential still. But that is a difficult way to live. Those shadows haunt and cloud everything from being seen as it is or how it could be. 

People call me a Pollyanna, always doing my best to look at things as they could be; How can things be changed for the better? And what are the good things we can take from the now into the future? Of course I have a bag full of miserable failures. But if I truly can not salvage something from them then they can either stay in the bag until they are useful or they can get tossed out. I mean this in the literal as well as the metephysical sense. At the very least I should have the knowledge that something didn't work for me and I can take that forward.

Ah there is an image that inspires a story. Guess I once more have something new to create today.