It's also been a while since my last post, which is something I find myself saying more and more often everyday. What is it with my recent lack of writing? I have no idea, but new ideas come harder and harder and everyday, drowned out by the constant stream of information provided to me from my actually challenging schoolwork.
Does anyone read this anymore? If so, I greet you! Like a monk sitting upon a mountaintop, waiting to dispense proverbial wisdom in the direction of any seekers of wisdom, tourists, passerbyers, or child seeking a mentor, I present to you my thoughts.
If you have read this before, then you well know the drill. I do nothing but send the first few paragraphs typing my thoughts and salutations, state the silver thread of an idea, only to leave it dangling, unfinished, with whatever promises of fulfilling such thoughts never to be carried out, delayed only by my apathy.
Onwards to another direction!
Imagine, if you will, the present. As in, right now. As in, this exact second, this exact time. Now it's gone. Now it's been gone. The only way to properly focus on the present, on this exact millisecond, is to focus on the imminent future. By doing this, by the time we have aligned our thoughts correctly, the moment has occurred, and we have correctly focused.
The present.
Imagine, a timeline. Stretching from the distant, primeval past to the far away, smoldering future.
Now imagine right now. There is only one instance of a "right now," and is fleeting, disappearing faster than a wisp of smoke in a hurricane. There is no "Right now," because by the time you muster up the concentration and perspective to label it "right now," the moment flew by before you could march your thoughts into the proper order. Indeed, a "right now" is so impossible to accurately imagine, that I have come to believe only a past and a future exist.
When you finish the next sentence, try to focus on a "right now." It will be quite difficult.
Done. As soon as you focused on the moment, it was gone, fading away to the past. Then, as you realize this, and focus to the present, you find yourself thinking ahead, to the future. It is, therefore, very hard to focus on a present.
Done. As soon as you focused on the moment, it was gone, fading away to the past. Then, as you realize this, and focus to the present, you find yourself thinking ahead, to the future. It is, therefore, very hard to focus on a present.
There is an infinite past, and an infinite future, but there is only one present. Due to it's rarity, the present is often considered the most important of the trio.
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