A Question of Time
Wishing time away is a dangerous proposition because I do not want to waste time or be ungrateful for the life I have now. I feel anticipation of an event is different than wishing time to move faster. Anticipation has been proven to increase happiness in regard to concerts, vacations, meetings with friends, etc.
As a former literacy coach, my day was often changed last minute. The skeleton schedule was disrupted by students, teachers, weather, emergency meetings, fire drills, lockdowns, etc.
Today I am pondering a questions about where most my thoughts land.
Do you think in the past, the present, or the future?
I feel the "right" answer should be the present.
I try not to let the past roll me over, but there is something to be said from experience and learning from it. As a writer, I rely on past experiences to embody a piece of writing.
I try to anticipate for the future so I am not caught off guard, but I have learned you cannot plan for everything.
But do I appreciate the moment I am in? I must say I do, more often than two years ago.
I think into the future with my practice of drafting several posts ahead of time so if I feel stuck I can pull one up and move from there. If I read a post I find intriguing because of the format, then I start new draft in my own dashboard. No writing is ever wasted.
In teaching, there was a lot of future thinking. There was an analysis to plan for the next right step for a student, a class, or a teacher. It was sometimes overwhelming and an energy drain. There wasn’t always a satisfactory payoff.
Is there a right answer to this question? I don't think so but today I will make an extra effort to be present with what I am doing and not worry to much about what is next.
How would you answer the question: Do you think in the past, the present, or the future?
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I've attempted to live in the present for years. I'm much closer to managing it a good 2 to 3 minutes out of each hour. If I'm really in the flow I can go longer before the sideways feeling slips in and I'm back into distracted thinking. I even say to myself: back on task, that's backwards thinking. Because somehow I've equated thinking in the past with looking backwards. LOL! When I'm thinking of the future it feels more like monkey mind syndrome.