From October 10, 2012 and revised:
People shouldn’t think of their lives this way. Ten years from now has no immediate function in the now, unless you’re planning something now that will take ten years to do, like med school or rebuilding a section of a city. It is the act of doing something now that must be paid the most attention to.
If I must think about it, I would have to consider all the things that are happening now, weight and measure each little thing (which is quite stressful just to think about) and consider what I do and do not want later. Anything planned now, like me telling myself I’m going to have a kid that’s at least three in ten years, is like setting myself up for failure. I now have the opportunity to fail because I stated that I will have something by then. If it doesn’t happen, I got to suddenly consider all the things that happened that prevented me from acquiring that goal. Then I’m looking into the past, am I not? Even worse, I'm likely to do it in regret or with self-defeatist mentality.
What I’m getting at is the impracticality of it all. What’s the use of looking back or forward if that’s where your mind devotes its efforts and then gives you fodder to judge yourself with? Now is far more important than that. Only right now. Tomorrow will be now tomorrow. Make it wait for you to get there, and don't let it tell you what to do with your life.
Also, don't let me tell you what to do either. Geez...
- Anya
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