Pub Philosophy - To move forward do you have to take your past with you?

Why the two-headed god Janus?

The origin of the month January.

In a way we are all the product of everything that has happened to us up to this present moment.

But does that mean that the rest of our lives are constrained by those things or do we have the power, should we choose to use it, to break free, to have a choice over what comes next?

If so, how might we access and use that power?

Big questions and a important ones at that.