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The future is an illusion

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Waiting for a future time and date to do something or begin something is a known pattern we have come to adopt.

But, is there really a future time waiting for us to make use of it?

Are you really certain that the future you so clearly or expectedly speak of will ever arrive?

Over the years as I have continued to live through life it has constantly dawned on me that, while the future is supposedly an expected time that is forthcoming, that the real future is actually now.

The time you now exist in is the same future that you are waiting for.

You may not get this if you fail to understand that the time you now live in as at this moment (today) is a part of the future you spoke about yesterday.

Because a summation of whatever the future will ever be is in combination of the time you now live in or exist in today and now.

There couldn't be a future of whatever made up date or year that you had in mind yesterday or last month without the existence of today.

So also will tomorrow become the future that we are now talking about today.

You need to get it, that nothing is finite in nature, everything is interconnected either directly or indirectly.

Just as today is a part of the future that was talked about yesterday, so also will tomorrow be a part of whatever future that we will be talking about today.

In essence, what I am trying to say is that the future is now.

You are currently living in the future.

This idea is meant to help you have a grasp of the concept of time.

Time is ongoing, a work in progress, an unending loop that never finishes. Just when you thought it's midnight… BOOM! a new day breaks. It never stops.

Time only stops when you stop being cognizant of its existence, when it no longer determines your actions.

Inasmuch as your actions are time motivated, no matter how far reaching a future time you have planned out, it is and will always be connected to your now.

Thus, it suffices to say that…

Now is also the future.

This is something I believe that many people can easily allude to in their personal life experiences.

Many of us have had times when we planned out something for a future date and for some unexplainable reasons the date seemed to approach so fast that we are left in disbelief.

This is also applicable in reverse, that something that happened years back just seems like it was just yesterday.

I mean, the 9/11 Twin Towers attack is already over two decades!

Can you believe that?

As much as we may seem to have fresh memories in our minds about a given time that will make events and occurrences look like they just happened yesterday or like they happened too fast, the truth is -  it is probably so.

Time Is an illusion.

The concept of time if not well deciphered can lead one to frustration and consequent failure.

To predict tomorrow you need to understand today and to understand today you need to put into perspective what happened yesterday.

They are all interconnected.

So, when you make plans or procrastinate, stop acting like tomorrow or any other time in the future exists on its own plane. But rather have the knowingness that today was yesterday just as today is the future.

When you get this concept and operate by it, you will suddenly realize that nothing should be procrastinated or left until later in the future because the time of the future is already counting.

Stay active and decisive.

Many of the problems we suffer could be that of indecisiveness and slow action.

Thank you for stopping by.

If you found any value in this post, I believe you will benefit from others too.

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