Going forward

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Voguish throat clearing expression which means from now on.

When you adopt the future tense, it’s a fair assumption — Time’s arrow doing its miserable thing and reminding us there’s but one way out of here — you are thinking of those points in time which haven’t happened yet, to the exclusion of all those which have.

From now on, I will be eating bananas” merely implies you haven’t been doing so until now. “Going forward, I will be eating bananas” suggests something more profound: that, before now, it had not even occurred to you that they might be worth consuming; that you are the author of an inspirational insight by which you seek to shine a beneficent new light on the world.

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