Reach back grasp the baton, scale the hurdlers and move on down the track rather than stand here basking in the glory of our dead ancestor; the hurdles they scaled, the hurdles in front of us and the unknown distances to go.
There is a word for this:
Sankofa -
take from the past (only) that which is necessary to get us into the future.
~Kwasi Akyeampong
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