Past / Present / Future

III · Sep 10, 2007

Where's your head most of the time? (yes, yes, I know - on your neck or up your tuchus) Do you "live" in the past, present, or future?

I find I'm always thinking about the future, no matter what I'm doing, I'm carrying around a mental list of all the things that need to be done. I think I need to live more in the present. Just wondering about you guys.

sunna · Sep 10, 2007

I should probably live a little more in the future; or at least think about it more often. I'm very much in the present.

scarletpeaches · Sep 10, 2007

Future, I think. I don't enjoy the present so much because I'm always making lists, thinking of what needs to be done, wondering what next week will be like, or the week after, or the week after that.

I think if you're always planning, you can lose sight of the blessings you experience now. And if you have something to look forward to at a later date, you can end up wishing your life away so the time passes quickly.

robeiae · Sep 10, 2007

I'm always doing laundry. Therefore, I live and suffer in the present, dread the future, and despise the past.

Devil Ledbetter · Sep 10, 2007

III, everybody knows it makes more sense to live in the present tense.

EriRae · Sep 10, 2007

I'm stuck in the past.

The_Grand_Duchess · Sep 10, 2007

I find myself dwelling on the past. I know that it's not healthy and it's not going to help anything but I can't seem to stop. But I got to court next month so I've been thinking on that too.

maestrowork · Sep 10, 2007

Mostly the present, with a short dip in the past or future time to time. I even write in present tense - I'm hopeless.

JLCwrites · Sep 10, 2007

I am almost always in the present.

If I think about the past, I will usually have a good laugh or feel a little guilty and I am scared to think of the future, cause, what if I don't have one?

BTW, I write present tense too.

NeuroFizz · Sep 10, 2007

I look to the future for inspiration, to the past for lessons and context, and try to put all that together to maximize enjoyment of the present.

Duncan J Macdonald · Sep 10, 2007

One must live in the past, for only the moment can be considered the present, and once one has realized the moment, it becomes the past.

Julie Worth · Sep 10, 2007

Past, present, future...that seems so limited.

III · Sep 10, 2007

Julie Worth said:
Past, present, future...that seems so limited.

Ummm, should I add "not yet conceived" or "dead" or "living in a dimension outside the timespace continuum" as options?

maestrowork · Sep 10, 2007

You need to add subjunctive mood...

seven41 · Sep 10, 2007

You cannot live in the past or the future. The past is memory and the future is imagination. I live in the now. I write about the past. I don't like what I imagine is coming in the future, so I don't write about it.

ishtar'sgate · Sep 10, 2007

When I'm well into a WIP my head is always in the distant past. Doesn't matter what I'm doing, I'm always thinking about the past, seeing it play out in my head like film. The present is an annoyance and the future isn't even on my radar.
Linnea

dclary · Sep 10, 2007

Past right now, sadly.

mkcbunny · Sep 10, 2007

Here and now. If I think about the future, I think about money, lack thereof, and how-can-we-pay-for-anything? So I don't think about that.

EriRae · Sep 10, 2007

dclary said:
Past right now, sadly.

Come join me in the past

We can make a new future. In the renaissance (did I get it right this time?) faire weapons forum...

dclary · Sep 10, 2007

Erinmiller77 said:
Come join me in the past We can make a new future. In the renaissance (did I get it right this time?) faire weapons forum...

You are an evil, evil woman.

III · Sep 10, 2007

Erinmiller77 said:
Come join me in the past We can make a new future. In the renaissance (did I get it right this time?) faire weapons forum...

No! This thread was not intended to empower you to time-travel and take over the past with your futuristic knowledge of gunpowder and electoral colleges and glued toilet paper. I shan't be responsible for that!

dclary · Sep 10, 2007

III said:
No! This thread was not intended to empower you to time-travel and take over the past with your futuristic knowledge of gunpowder and electoral colleges and glued toilet paper. I shan't be responsible for that!

We'll let you create the first electric lute!

III · Sep 10, 2007

dclary said:
We'll let you create the first electric lute!

IT'S A DEAL!

Mr. Fix · Sep 10, 2007

Keeping my eyes on the prize...

As Yoda once said;

"Always to the future does he look, never concentrating on where he is now!"

I prefer the Tralfamadorian view of time...

We humans look at time like a mountain peak, standing at the base, seeing only the mountain before us or the one behind. Tralfamadorians view time as the mountain range. Seeing the whole range before them and simply visiting each peak at their pleasure. (concept from 'Slaughterhouse Five' by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.)

:e2arms:

III · Sep 10, 2007

Mr. Fix said:
As Yoda once said;

"Always to the future does he look, never concentrating on where he is now!"

I prefer the Tralfamadorian view of time...

We humans look at time like a mountain peak, standing at the base, seeing only the mountain before us or the one behind. Tralfamadorians view time as the mountain range. Seeing the whole range before them and simply visiting each peak at their pleasure. (concept from 'Slaughterhouse Five' by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.)

Then you need to update your sig line where it says "My future's so bright". Maybe "The Tralfamadorian range before me is so full of bright peaks that I must wear occular protection"?

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