The past has a great influence on our present and the present also has a great influence on our future affecting our lives to a great extent.

The past has a great influence on our present and the present also has a great influence on our future affecting our lives to a great extent.

The past has a great influence on our present. In fact, it would be correct to say that in most instances, the past caused the present just like the present would affect the future. It is believed that the present will affect the future that so many of our institutions exist. These range from banks and schools to governments. All of them laid the foundation rightly or wrongly for the present in the past and are laying the foundation for the future. 

That the past affects the present is almost a natural law. This is true with regard to small events, like personal events. In our personal lives, our past education affects our present. Some of us carry scars of our childhood. Which can affect our whole lives? But more important are historical events which affect the present of a country and sometimes the whole world.

A point in question is the effect of our recent actions on the environment. Pollution is widespread; the rain forest in disappearing at a frightening rate ; the hole in the ozone layer is getting bigger. All these disasters caused by the actions of  man are still in progress and half the world is crying out to the other half to stop.

Shouldn’t we. therefore, try to be a little more careful about our actions in the present both at personal and national level? 

                                                         Some question:

• Question:          

               Which actions of the past are now causing threat to our existence?

• Answer:          

             The actions of the past which have polluted our environment to a great extent are now 

              causing threat to our existence.