With so much emphasis on mindfulness and appreciating the present moment, it's worth understanding when focusing on the past or future can make life more meaningful.
Some people tell me that they take their lives to be insufficiently meaningful, and they attribute this to what they see as their failure to be wholly in the “here and now,” that is, to fully live in the present alone.
Further, they see being in the here and now as being fully present, exercising all of one’s capacities, focusing on the condition in which one is, and thus living more intensely and deliberately, all of which they associate with having a meaningful life. Focusing on good things that happened in the past may also help us remember that although we may be in a bad place now, our life isn’tbad or meaningless. Perhaps things are bad here and now, but since there have been better times in the past, it is likely that there will also be better times in the future. This can help us keep in mind that the bad right now may just be a temporary crisis, a difficult period that we need to pass until things improve.
terrible as it seems? Is it possible that in twenty years, or two years, or even two months or two weeks, we wouldn’t see it as such a big thing? What is here and now usually seems bigger than it really is, simply because it’s so close to us, just as when we put a small coin close to the eye: the coin looks immense and conceals from us the rest of the universe. Seeing it in its real size and comparing it to other things provides perspective and context.
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