Just as it happened to us opportunely when we were looking for the best definition of the present, with the term last something similar happens and is also used interchangeably in various situations. Because the word past refers to the period of time before or immediately prior to the present, but it is also used to name a thing or a fashion that is already obsolete and the set of previous, past experiences (memories) that a person has.
The past of each individual, of each social group, community or if we want to be a little broader, of a nation, is extremely important because it will be this on which the present will depend to a large extent and of course also the future, since the actions Decisions, especially those that only make a dent in the long term, that are taken, surely, will end up influencing, modifying, for better or for worse, that will be judged by time, that present and that future.
For example, whenever you want to find answers about the contingencies that affect a country at a certain time, what you do is review the past, since it is believed that this has a lot to do with the construction of the present and the future, because it exists as a kind of karma in those who compose it, to call it somehow, who will tend to repeat the same situations or decisions. But on the other hand, when you want to go the other way, take another path so as not to repeat the same mistakes as in the past, it will also be essential to inquire into it, to know where not to go.
Even focusing on a more individual level, human beings are also the product of a past, by this I mean that, for example, our adult or adolescent life will always be marked, marked, back, for better or for worse, by that. that we have experienced in the past.
Meanwhile, the past is a subject that arouses interest from other sciences such as archeology, philology, geology, paleontology, cosmology and history, among others.
And it is precisely history, the science par excellence that has been concerned over the years with studying and analyzing the past of man, the events, causes, development and consequences that have occurred within its framework.
