Thursday, August 16, 2007
Outside Looking In
It’s seems easy to see another person from your perspective, but harder to recognize your own feelings as they come. You think you know yourself by identifying the things you want, and exactly have it planned on how you’ll make yourself happy. Then someone challenges you and shows you another way of getting what you want. Does it seem viable? Would you risk something for short term benefits? Then again, don’t we all need it anyway? We need the now more than the future. We need some results now more than a big deal for later. We appreciate what’s tangible rather than something ambiguous.
It’s just natural that we think of the future, something long term and lasting. We all want things to last forever, or at least be able to control it to last for a certain period of time. Isn’t that why we do some forecasting, planning, and sometimes even day dreaming? So that we can plan ahead, we can prepare before things happen. We love thinking of what’s in place for the future.
Although, there’s also the other aspect of being able to appreciate the present time and what you currently have. I think that I have been entrapped by the future that I somehow forget the Present. When things are uncertain, you somehow just look ahead all the time and hope that things will stabilize and your present conditions would be better, later. Then I realize that by doing so, I have denied myself of appreciating what I have now.
I have been confined in my own shell, with most of my family & friends not really seeing me even when I’m just around. I have been preparing too much for the future, thinking I can handle things on my own, when in fact all I needed was to accept the support they are willing to give.
It’s just natural that we think of the future, something long term and lasting. We all want things to last forever, or at least be able to control it to last for a certain period of time. Isn’t that why we do some forecasting, planning, and sometimes even day dreaming? So that we can plan ahead, we can prepare before things happen. We love thinking of what’s in place for the future.
Although, there’s also the other aspect of being able to appreciate the present time and what you currently have. I think that I have been entrapped by the future that I somehow forget the Present. When things are uncertain, you somehow just look ahead all the time and hope that things will stabilize and your present conditions would be better, later. Then I realize that by doing so, I have denied myself of appreciating what I have now.
I have been confined in my own shell, with most of my family & friends not really seeing me even when I’m just around. I have been preparing too much for the future, thinking I can handle things on my own, when in fact all I needed was to accept the support they are willing to give.
