History does repeat itself

I look at the times gone by, and at the chain of events of the recent past; and a paragraph from 'Dragons of Autumn Twilight' by Margaret Weis & Tracy Hickman comes to my mind.

[ "We may not have won the war," Tanis began, "but surely we have won a major battle --"
Raistlin coughed and shook his head sadly.
"Do you see no hope?"
"Hope is the denial of reality. It is the carrot dangled before the draft horse to keep him plodding along in a vain hope to reach it."
"Are you saying we should just give up?" Tanis asked, irritably tossing the bark away.
"I'm saying we should remove the carrot and walk forward with our eyes open." ]

What goes does come around - sometimes sooner, sometimes much later; but it indeed does. Maybe, it is an interplay of fate, karma, destiny or providence. Why does it really happen, I probably will never know.

But what I do know is that, today, my eyes are wide open.