By denmarkguy on Skatehive
Most people spend a lot of time, energy and thought being absorbed in the future. Typically, that future we contemplate is largely fictitious in the sense that we're dreaming about "better times," because we feel like right now is unbearably painful and difficult. So we look to the future and consider how we're going to be happier when we get that new job, or we're going to have better and less stressful times when we retire, or how things will be good when the Cryptosphere turns around and the price of Hive is $6.00 instead of 6 cents. In a sense, dreaming about a better future is a way to distract ourselves and escape from the difficulties of our present. Of course, there's lots of good advice out there to the effect of "be here now" and suggesting that we be present and enjoy life as it is now rather than keep our head constantly mired down in future imaginings we don't know whether will actually come to pass. The stray thought that often wanders through my head is that of contempla