Why are you sorry about referencing the past. Many great things happened in the past. And you wouldn`t be here if not for the past.
The past was better than the present in many areas. Any one who doesn`t like the past or refer to it is very boring, and those who talk about only the future have little knowledge of what will happen, but they like to speculate.
In general, don`t many say the past can predict the future?
