Does thinking "the day after" spoil the magic of happy moments ?

Question

Does thinking "the day after" spoil the magic of happy moments ?

Answer 1

no, thinking of the day after makes you imagine ways to experience more and more happy moments:)

Answer 2

If there was not a day after there would never have  been a day before and none of this would  have taken place.

Answer 3

To think day before is not wise too...notice while you are in a happy moment you are not capable to think any more, for some (or the same) reason...May be our ability to think have a different application but our  obligating necessity "to think" leading us away from happy moments?

Answer 4

No. not if you are thinking seconds.

Answer 5

You experience happy moments only when there is no

thought activity.

Answer 6

who knos

Answer 7

Yes, both emotionally and chemically (in our brains that is).  

Emotionally, we worry about tomorrow and that really makes us live for something that's not even here instead of in this moment's potential happiness.

Chemically because in our brains, a moment is expansive, enormous, full of information, and connects us all on some level (right brain).  But as soon as our left hemisphere sets it on that linear track and breaks down that "moment" bit by bit, then we start worrying about the next moment and the next moment, etc, etc.

It's weird.  There's so much (and I mean a LOT) of potential happiness in a moment but we're thinkers and that sort sets a lot of people up for misery...odd.

Answer 8

I'll tell you tomorrow.

Answer 9

it lessens the excitement in a way that your attention will be divided between the present and the day after

Answer 10

great question alice! i'm not answering, just commenting. i have dealt with this for years. letting thoughts of "the day after" lesson the pleasure of today. this has really opened my eyes.

Answer 11

...hek! s***w the day after......

.....i drink to my fill and smoke right now....

Answer 12

futurising can be mundane - planning a shopping list which affects the present with bringing it down.

if it is fear provoking thinking then it can totally spoil the moment .

My friend once said if they  had a toothache at the same time as an o****m they would focus on the toothache.

We seem inordinately incapable of savouring our happiest moments - maybe it is the fear of the feeling or injuctions given to us as children on the lines of:-

Dont get too giddy - It'll end in tears!

Answer 13

...oh, I don't think so...that is as long as the "day before" was not involving something "stupid"...