The past is an anchor for those who refuse to cut the rope.

Those who inherit the past without questioning it are not guided by history but trapped by it. Cutting the rope is not a risk—it is a necessity.

The most persistent illusion is that progress is built on accumulation. That knowledge compounds, that experience refines, that history instructs. But in reality, the weight of what has been learned, built, and believed is often the very thing that prevents movement. What is called wisdom is often nothing more than hesitation formalized into principle. Every structure, every framework, every conviction begins as a solution but ends as a constraint. The past does not propel forward—it resists, pulls, insists on its own relevance long after it has lost it. The mind, unwilling to confront the unknown, clings to it not because it is true, but because it is familiar.