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Originally Posted by z1freeride  I think it's possible to not be living in the moment. I've seen people put way too much effort into thinking about the past (Napolean Dynamite football guy) which can lead to regret or on the flip side extreme nostalgia. And there's a lot of dreamers out there who fantasize about the future but nothing ever gets done. |
Sure, we think about the past and our future to the extent that we aren't really present to what's going on Now. Our attention and intention is somewhere other than here & now. Regardless, Now is all we've got. All that worry and regret and nostalgia and anxiety is happening right now in the current moment, and we try to cram the past and future into it. But it doesn't work, as you say. Nothing ever gets done. Old pain sticks around. I think you and I are saying the same thing in different ways.