What are your plans for the next 1T?

[sbarrera]

(03-26-2022, 08:49 AM)JasonBlack Wrote:

(03-24-2022, 07:43 PM)sbarrera Wrote: I get nostalgic for the freer times, too. I didn't think about the future or have a care in the world through my 20s and 30s. But time is relentless, the true master of us all.

I was kind of the opposite: thinking seriously about the future has come naturally to me since I was like 7 (spent most of my teens hanging out at this tea shop with a bunch of Gen X and boomer businessmen where we talked about investing, history and differences between living in different countries). It's thinking about the present which life experience and time had to beat into me, and which I am now, at 30, only just getting a grasp on.

One must keep the future in mind and be prepared, but if one worries about the future to the point of being paralyzed into inactivity in the present then one has no ability to affect the future. That's how I see "being in the present." Allowing yourself to be focused in what you are doing in the now, to effectively apply your energy. 

Also, "now" is the only moment that actually exists but that's more of a metaphysical observation.