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Do you live in the present?

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If you were to gather all that you've lost, place it in a pile, and then all that you've since gained, place it in another pile, side by side, and were told you could only keep one, which would you choose?

Why do we either look in the past or the future?

Are we not ever changing? And is loss and gain not one in the same, as nothingness and sameness are where the memory of something, and the promise of something meet, as does a zero on a number line? If we focus on only the memory, it cannot generate into something new. And if we focus on only the promise, it has nothing to generate from. The past contains memory, the future contains plans. The present is where the sparks take place.

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  1. i wud love 2 live in present...


  2. Too soon does the present slip away from us. Too much time human beings spend dwelling in the past or trying to foresee the future. The future is right now. The future is the next second. And the last second is the past. We live planning for the future.  

  3. I tend to live 'everywhere' till I'm forced to come back to 'now'.

  4. we can only undersstand our present if we look back to our past and having knowledge of our past and present would result to a right plan for the future.

  5. people ask this type of questions... becoz they are in search of utter joy which they wont find by asking questions as this on yahoo answers...

    the utter joy is out there and it is you and only YOU who can embrace it ..

    so go on and search...

    njoy

  6. The past was yesterday,the future is tomorrow and the present is now..I left the past behind me only thought of when needed,the present is now as I prepare for the future of my tomorrows.Blessings Yahoo.B.Mack/Sir Isaac Hayes..RIP..

  7. That's why they say:"you learn from the past, live for now, and hope for the future"

  8. The past is gone.

    The future is not yet.

    The present is all we have.

    Live.

  9. As much as I can.... I think it is something that your either born with or learn in time

  10. Yesterday is gone and tommorow will never be here today. You get what everyone else gets to live... and that is today.  

  11. yesterday was history tomorrow is a mystery and today is a gift that's why its called present!

    i believe some people look forward to the future as they believe it could possibly bring more happiness.

    some people look backwards as their life as their life at present isn't as bright and happy as it possibly used to be...

    with me i look at the past because i know what ive lost i would never regain....

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