Sunday, April 13, 2008 @1:28 PM
We also learn to postpone our pleasures & our happiness, often developing a notion that some in the future everything will be much better than it is now.
The high school students thinks, " when i'm out of this school & don't have to do what i am told, then everything will be great!" He leaves school & suddenly recognises that he won't be happy until he has left home. He leaves home & starts university & soon decides, " When i have got my degree, then i'll be really happy!" Eventually he gets his degree at which time he realises that he can't be happy until he has a job.
He gets his job & has to start at the bottom of the heap. He is still not happy. As the years go by, he postpones his happiness & peace of mind until he gets engaged, gets married, starts buying a home, gets a better job, starts a family, gets the kids in school, owns his home, gets the kids out of school, retires, then he drops dead before he allows himself to be blissfully happy. All his present moments were spent planning for a wonderful future which never arrived.
The point is that None of us as a guarantee that we will be here tomorrow. Now is all we have got.
Living in the now also means that we enjoy whatever we are doing for its own sake, & not just for the end result.
team.