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Accept the Past, Embrace the Future, and Live in the Present

“If you are depressed you are living in the past. If you are anxious you are living in the future.
If you are at peace you are living in the present.” Lao Tzu

We live in an uncertain world. Everything is moving, changing, and revealing itself to be not what we thought it might be.

We are too focused on the past and the future. We should concentrate on now, in order to get now right.

Time compounds our fears, and it takes us into a future that will never happen.

Time and fear keep slipping in and out of past and future.

Fear drives many of us to go to a job that is unfulfilling, to deal with unpleasant tasks in life that help stave off financial catastrophes.

Mostly, we battle our way through, there is little time to deal with the things of everyday life properly, we simply do our best, and create a trail of half done jobs that don’t seem to add up to much.

Then we deal with our feelings. Our fears.

Questions arise about meaningfulness.