The Apostle Paul wrote "For none of us lives to himself, and none of us dies to himself." Man cannot live in isolation. He will affect others even if he should attempt to live as a hermit in a cave. First of all, man cannot isolate himself from his past. Your ancestors may have been peasants or kings, but ultimately all of our records did get lost in the flood.
We are a part of those who have gone before us. I have been told that I sound like my father when I talk. I know I have many of his mannerisms and often hear him speaking in things I say. Many of these characteristics, I suspect, could be traced back to his father and grandfather.
So, we cannot live isolated from the past. Neither can we isolate ourselves from the present. Everything that we do affects someone else. Often we make people happy or sad just by the expressions on our faces. A word spoken in the wrong place or at the wrong time can never be retracted. Every salesman knows that each client he calls upon can influence as many as 250 or more other people to buy or not to buy his product. From every deed will arise consequences, and the scriptures say that these consequences will go from us down through many generations.
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