I'm wondering...about how our sense of time impacts us.
Contradicting a few things I believe about being in the now, I have been thinking about the prospect that much of what we do in any given day is really about something we are trying to anticipate down the road; in other words, in the future. It is true that there is something quite powerful for humanity regarding the prospects of the future; isn't this the essence of hope?
I've caught myself these days living a lot (too much) in the future.
But, it also seems apparent that we can become so future-oriented that we miss what is around us right now. And, the irony is that what is happening around us right now and how we respond to that is what creates the future.
Of course, there is the past which can only be re-experienced in the now (we can't experience the past in the future). The past, then, was a prior now.
The future is a not yet now.
So all we really have is...now.
We can (and should) be informed by the past and the future. But, today is the only moment we can ever really live.
The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time.
-- Abraham Lincoln
