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  JOYOUS : Contentment Spinner

An amusing musing.

JOYOUS said Jul 9, 12:07 PM:
 

LIVING IN THE MOMENT


I've been thinking this morning about “living in the moment” and and “forgetting the future.”

How can one forget or remember the future, when it hasn't happened yet?   

Remember dear reader, This is the “50+ stars: a half century and more on earth group”  and being 50 stars + 22,  I have lots of time to think about plenty.  Such as the conundrum I present today. 

Yesterday is an example: 
(The present now past)

I was happily living in the moment without thought of past or future.  In that moment, I made a commitment to be somewhere that evening.  That would be “future”. 
I continued on living the moment and soon noticed that the future had become present and I had forgotten.

The future that I expected in the morning, came and went and I was not there.    

I don't recall ever noticing this situation.

Is this what happens when a person has a long past, an abundance of time, and a future shorter than the past?

What do you think?

Joyous Mary <:)
1937 
      
  Meenakshi : Connection

Re: An amusing musing.

Meenakshi said Jul 9, 12:37 PM:
 

Joyous Mary, first I've to laugh because I love the way you write.
Then I have to say - I really don't know if this happens only after 50*+22 because sometimes it happens to me at 50*+3!!!

I think that to live in that moment we've to really expand into that total moment, so that we don't 'forget' when the future is upon us!

btw, when did you 'remember the past that had been the future'?
  JOYOUS : Contentment Spinner

Re: An amusing musing.

JOYOUS said Jul 10, 3:11 PM:
 

In the present that was 30-minutes before the future.

I sometimes question the way that I think.  It's good to find someone who understands these things that I ponder and wonder in my wanders.

Bye <:) 
Joyous
1937 
  ingebrita : seeker

Re: An amusing musing.

ingebrita said Jul 15, 9:31 AM:
 

I love the way you write, too, Joyous Mary.  For some reason the idea of forgetting the future makes me think of the expression “borrowing trouble,” meaning to worry needlessly about the future, especially about those things that might or might not happen that we have no control over.  I've always had trouble balancing what to plan for and what to leave to the future.  Our kids got mixed messages from us, my husband was always telling them not to burn any bridges behind them and I was always telling them that they would cross that bridge when they came to it…
  JOYOUS : Contentment Spinner

Re: An amusing musing.

JOYOUS said Jul 16, 6:44 AM:
 

Barb:  “.  .  .  Our kids got mixed messages .  .  . ”  reminds me of a discovery difference between one of my daughters and I, that I noticed just last week. 

I had mentioned that my life is mostly spontaneous. 

She has two children under 12 years old.   
She responded that she finds that she needs to make plans, otherwise too much is missed out on. 

I did not counter:  “For that very same reason I do not make plans.  I have found too many times that if I have a plan, something else comes along that is more fun but I can't be a part of it because I had other plans.”

For your husband:  If not to burn the bridge behind, how about burning the bridge that we come to, if we don't want to cross it?  I think one of my problems is that I want to get to the other side and crossing the bridge is the only way  but it is a poorly built bridge with risk.

It's a beautiful day this Thursday morning, 8:45 in Columbus, WI.   Dry. Cool temps are predicted. 

Both sides of the bridge are pleasant. 

Joyous Mary
1937