"Open future" and "unfinished past": to the question of temporal culture

The article is devoted to the consideration of “unfinished past” as the factor that prevents a person from his opening up to the future and living a full life in the present. The authors believe that it is necessary to teach "temporal culture" that would help people to relate successfully to the modes of time and would not allow them to "get stuck in the past." This text is mainly about the culture of “closing gestalt” and the ability to set goals. Using the term "gestalt", the authors appeal to the methodology of Gestalt therapy, which is used to study the existential-philosophical problem of temporality. The article explains that the unfinished past, which we continue to experience, imperiously draws our attention to itself, absorbs emotions and energy, does not allow us to form confidence in our actions and deeds, and reproduces in the present a model of unfinished situations. This concern to both personal human history and political and international relations. The article highlights the main plots associated with the "unfinished past". These are unclear relationships, first of all, resentment; unrealized goals; guilt; the lost “wonderful past”, regret about which does not leave a person. Temporal culture can consist of the possession of a number of methods to "close the gestalt" in order to be opened for the future. Among them, there are both practical ways of closing the past (the ability to obey, paying off debts, finding out the burdens), and working with consciousness - interpreting events, flexible setting life goals, forgiveness, etc.