On the way home this evening, a book I was reading got me thinking (dangerous, I know!):
When we are young, we spend our time looking to tomorrow. We think about what we'd do when we finished school/university or grew older. We made plans - plans to be married/rich/have children/buy a house/be successful, etc. Our thoughts drift to the future and all it's possibilities. We think our lives will really begin.....tomorrow, tomorrow, tomorrow.
When we get older, the opposite happens and we stop looking to tomorrow but think about yesterday. Our thoughts drift to our past and what we did or should have done. Remembering the good times but also sometimes regretting choices or mistakes made. Wondering what life would be like if..... There is the danger that we spend too much time thinking about what was.
When do we have time to think about what is now? By missing out on the now are we placing ourselves in a vicious cycle of looking to tomorrow, and then when tomorrow comes, looking to yesterday and wishing we had done X?
http://adamantixx.blog.co.uk
2007-11-22 @ 22:52