If you could really plan or predict your future with a 100 percent confidence interval then you are actually doing the God’s work. When most of the world is not even sure about the existence of God then pretending that you can actually do its task is quite foolish! All we can be confident about is “today” which we live everyday and so it’s better to enjoy it when it is still there.
It’s surprising how much the worry of the uncertainty about future, troubles our present. It follows us in our school to college life and is of course an integral part of our work life. That’s what pension assets are meant for isn’t it? You spend your entire career towards building them. But my point is that you don’t know what future has in store for you, while it’s good to care about it, but it’s dangerous to be obsessed with it. Moving forward with a reasonable assumption that you are never going to attain a speed of light, it’s only best to live in present because you will never be able to move back in time to cease the moments you have missed! In the words of Robert Nathan, “There is no distance on this earth as far away as yesterday”.
Its silly how many times the fear of failure and sometimes ego prevents us from doing things we will love to do. For example looking back you will definitely find someone you really liked and would have loved to date her but just couldn’t do it because of the hesitance born from your deceiving ego. My suggestion is just let go of the ego and do everything you want to do while you still have the chance to do it. There’s no point in regretting about it in future. Questions like “What if I had done it?” are not helpful; it will only make you sad. Don’t let your love die deep within your heart with the baseless belief that the dying embers of it shall fuel the next trip that your heart shall endeavor on! It does not mean that you will not have enough opportunities in future, but just don’t trash existing ones in hope of getting more of them. It might even help to have the pessimistic attitude that the future is going be bleak and present is much more beautiful and so its best to admire and enjoy it in the transient time you have.
People always talk about the “good old days” but my friend why not rather talk about the “good now days”. Even the Buddha was enlightened as back as in 500 B.C. that “we should neither dwell in the past, nor dream of the future but concentrate our mind on present moment”. We are now in the 21st century where by logic we should be smarter than Buddha. There is no point in repeating the mistakes of our ancestors, else it will mean that our learning from them have a null value!
To end I will like to quote the words of Jean-Louis Barrault, “You have to wake up a virgin each morning”. So it really doesn’t matter if you were fucked in the past and it’s futile to worry about getting fucked in future. Every day is a fresh start and wisdom lies in relishing it in the ephemeral time for which it lasts.
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