What does the phrase "You Can Never Go Back" mean to you?

The past was, is, and always will be untouchable.

Very true, Poof, and unreachable and immutable. I have always heard the expression as “You can’t go home again.”

do the things you want to now. There may not be time tomorrow. To me it means taking advantage of the time I have on this earth

Life is similar to the cucumber/pickle relationship…once a you’ve become a pickle, you can never be a cucumber again.

Never can go back to fix it, never should go back, never can go re-visit.

It addresses the yearning for youth, which slips away very quickly as you will no doubt find out some years from now.
You can’t change the past, but you can change the way the past affects you.

I wrestled with this very recently when I suddenly began to remember some old unhappy events associated with an old girlfriend from 1978. First something kept popping into my head, this night or the other night or some other time. I couldn’t get it to stop and I was becoming agitated inside me because of this.
I tend to overanalyze things as it is and this was driving me bats. Then I remembered as does everyone that no matter what you do or think or conjure up, there is no way to change what happened over thirty years ago. So why bother?

SRM

its too late..let bygones be bygones..its a harsh statement with every motive to push you down the drain with no chance to get back again

once you go black you can never go back on the other hand I believe that phrase just means things happen and we can’t do squat about them and as horrible as what happened was it happened for a reason and we might not know the reason or understand the situation but we must keep our heads up and keep going. There’s always something positive.

All dogs go to heaven.

“You can never go back, Charlie… Charlie… You can never go back…”

The past was never exactly as we perceived it and we all change over time so you are someone who is different looking at what never was, no wonder you can’t get there. Example-your 40th high school reunion.

I was thinking about that, but then realized it was in the past.

Out on the road today, I saw a deadhead sticker on a Cadillac.

@uber: LURVE.

The past is in the past and doesn’t exist in the present or the future.

But what the phrase tends to conjure for me, is annoyance at a vague truism. Making such expressions more meaningful than what’s actually so, tends to limit what’s possible in people’s minds, and their resulting choices.

…“So do it right this time.”

…does anyone else think of LOST?

when you try to revisit old places or old relationships, it is never as it was, or as you remember it.

Yesterday was a lesson. Tomorrow is a blessing.

Live like this is your second chance, like you have gone back to fix it…

@ezra: So true, have you ever ogne back to your elementary school before? Talk about changed perception!!

This phrase is very true.

“You can never go back.”

To me it means I have to take advantage of what I have now because I do not know if it will last forever. For example, I had a rocky relationship in the past and we tried to make things how they were in the beginning, but it never happened. Things were never the same.

And I believe this is true with many things. It’s almost impossible to make things EXACTLY the same as the past; it may be very similar, but that’s it.

So take advantage and appreciate what you have now, and strive for your goals because we only have now.

This kind of reminds me of something my friend said, “strive for the best boo,ur worth it.”

(just take the “boo” out lol”

It would seem to suggest that if you don’t have either the time or interest in doing it right the first time, what makes you think you’ll have time or interest the second time around?

‘Home’ is not static. When you leave things change. If you return, it won’t be the home you remembered.

@Kyria Welcome to Fluther!