Leaving breadcrumbs
To trace back our steps, we leave breadcrumbs. Clear paths that connect us to where we started, and the choices we made to get to where we are right now.
The metaphor of leaving breadcrumbs comes from Hansel and Grethel. A story where the breadcrumbs were famously eaten by the birds , and he kids could not find their way back.
The metaphor lost its own breadcrumds and never checked where it was going.