IS IT TOO MUCH OR TOO LITTLE OF THE PRESENT IN WHICH WE LIVE?

do v really associate too much importance with the present?

i think we do- because all it really takes to undermine the importance of most important issues in our life is taking a long term perspective. think of how something will affect you say about five years or ten years from now- chances are your answer will be 'it wont affect anything in the least'...

infact this thought process is the best stress buster- anything that haggles me, i just think of its long term repercussions. it works great- and its actually the best measure of whether all that effort im putting in now is worth it or not...because the genuinely important decisions tend to affect us in the long term.

now it could actually look like an escapists theory of avoiding all effort, but frankly to me life is in the present. yes i associate infinite importance with my present- but it reflects in how i decide its important to live every moment of the present as it were the most important.

the present is important in how it is the only truth..the reality that really exists and can be experienced in real time. so why not live it on your own terms, without making every little silly issue look like fundamental to your existence.

that is the irony in terms of time- we associate just enough importance with the present, yet we tend to misunderstand its implications and replace the sense of being alive with the sense of urgency to accomplish.

all id like to say is-stop!look around- life is beautiful... live in the present and for the present and stop pursuing that endless list of ambitions. Dream- and live some of your dreams but don't become obsessed with that idea- because reality is in itself wonderful, with shades of fame, money and power.. but when they become the absolute crux of the self- the picture is gaudy and ugly !