Do you spend more time thinking about the future or the past? Why?

“The past is already gone

The future is not here yet

There is only one moment for you to live”

Ideally, we shouldn’t live in the past and we shouldn’t worry about the future. Both are out of our hands and they can only bring worry, anxiety and a negative attitude

We don’t think of happy moments from the past. We tend to just remember the loss, the sorrow and trauma. We tend to keep holding on to pain and feed off it.

We don’t think of the future in a positive way. No! We worry about it and build wild scenarios so we can wonder “what if?” We fear the future because we don’t want to fail.

The ideal state is the present! Being grateful for all we have already! Smiling in the morning expressing gratitude for we are alive, we have a home, we can walk, talk, hear and see! Energising ourselves by waking with a positive and can do attitude.

It is easy to say and so hard to do! I wish I was practicing what I preach on a daily basis but the reality is different! Most days I wake up exhausted for different reasons; I wake up angry and stressed about situations that took place and I had zero control over. Or, I wake up worried about something that has not yet happened and is highly unlikely to ever take place

I am human after all. I am wired this way because this is how we were raised. We grew up worrying about what will happen if, what would someone else say about things we have done or are about to do. We were born to fear failure instead of embracing it and learning from it. We were born anxious

Coming back to our question ….  🤔 I think I fear the future and I think about it more than I think of the past and more than I would like to enjoy the present. I worry about not finding a better job, I fear that I won’t be able to grow as a person and I haven’t matured enough, I am terrified of new beginnings!