Push and Pull of Time

while watching Timewave 2013, i heard one of the person telling that your present is not only product of past but also guided by future. some say that this guiding future is programmed by my past. but there is something more to it. there is more universal pattern. i too feel there is some something into it. the river flows not only because mountain has given water to it but also because there is ocean which is pulling it. so for a river to flow there has to be past in form of mountain and future in the form of Ocean.