Future

Are we constantly worrying about the future? Working towards it? Tamed by it? Or are we creating it? Making our fortune? Or just watching as time pass by. It's very curious to see the way 'time' is constructed, which created past, present and future. Taking a smaller example of it, yesterday, today and tomorrow. Interestingly, the Hindi language word for yesterday and tomorrow is the same: 'kal'. Does that mean anything? Why didn't/couldn't they think of different words? Maybe they saw it was unnecessary, and we are just in a perception of time. When I learnt this for the first time in school, it baffled me. I was appalled to see how do I communicate effectively if the word is the same? But, I didn't face much trouble, because it's the same case for everyone. Not just me.

“The reason people find it so hard to be happy is that they always see the past better than it was, the present worse than it is, and the future less resolved than it will be.” – Marcel Pagnol

So, what is to be interpreted? Nothing more than just live the moment. Take it in literal terms. What has happened i.e. what you've lived is past and history. What you are doing is present and reality. What you'd end up is future and unknown. So, live the moment. These three are interchangeable. But, do not compare what has happened in your past with your present wisdom. Compare what happened in 1990 with the knowledge of 1990, not the wisdom of 2021. This is something my costly education of 1 course costing ~$6K taught me. No retrospective wisdom. Use past knowledge to analyze what happened in past, and learn to apply that wisdom in the present. 

 

Location: Hyderabad, India

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