"The Future is Now"
I don't even remember where I first came across that phrase, but I'm sure most people have at least heard it. Regardless of its origins, I think it holds an important point:
Whether you're banging rocks together and living in a cave, pushing 9 to 5 in a corporate office, or piloting space ships to the outermost regions of the universe, today is yesterday's future. The future is now.
Are we any more or less happy about it? Really? Right now? Today? Will that change 5, 50, 500, 5 million years from now?
I think Terry Pratchett puts it well:
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Originally Posted by Terry Pratchett It's a popular fact that 90% of the brain is not used and, like most popular facts, it is wrong. Not even the most stupid Creator would go to the trouble of making the human head carry around several pounds of unnecessary grey goo if its only real purpose was, eg, to serve as a delicacy for certain remote tribesmen in unexplored valleys, it is used. One of its functions is to make the miraculous seem ordinary, and turn the unusual into the usual. Otherwise, human beings, forced with the daily wondrousness of everything, would go around wearing a stupid grin, saying "WOW" a lot. Part of the brain exists to stop this happening. It is very efficient, and can make people experience boredom in the middle of marvels |
I think that no matter what good or bad exists in this physical world, people will always find things to be happy or dissatisfied with.
I don't know that I can really answer your question. I intend to find pleasure in what I have today.
-- Daniel Terhorst