why do every one crib about present ? young wants the future and the old past, then who wants the present?
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Well this is actually an easy one.\nWho wants to live in the present..  and who DOES their best to live in today? - Happy People.\n\nWhen you are happy...  you want it to last and last.  If your happiest times were as a kid - you'd look back to those times and spending your time in remembrance... if you are a teenager/kid not that thrilled about 'now' - but looking forward to all the opportunities of the future - then of course the future is where your head is - and in a way that's healthy for that age - what a teenager is almost by definition - part child still (past) - and part adult (future) and in some sense, since now's the time you're planning what college to attend, apps to fill out, your major in college, etc... teenagers should be keeping one foot in the future and one in today... to plan for their future while still enjoying these days.\n\nSo plan for tomorrow - but work on these plans in the present.\nYa, that sounds right.  \n\nBut regardless of age... when you've found that love of your life... or have a lot of great friends around you, a great job you just leap out of bed for - then i'm guessing you're most likely to be living in today. The present. For these are good days... and you don't want to miss a moment of it. \n\nAnd when time starts to go by - these are the days you shall miss - but hopefully you won't keep BOTH feet in the past. maybe just one eye on the past to be sure you learn from it - \n\nAnd be grateful that you even woke up today (alot of people didn't you know) - and always remember today, the present day, is the day to get things done... not the time to remember or try to forget or simply to look forward to better days.\n\nToday is when you MAKE those better days happen.\nToday is when you put in the work.\nRight? - like getting your dreams to be reality, becoming a better human being, etc.  Those things can only be done in the present. Today is for doing my friend.\n\nAnd of course the old: wanting what you don't have theory comes into play as well. Wanting what you don't have, well that will make you look ahead - or back to the past at what you never had or had and lost.\n\nGREAT Question by the way. A big thing we all have to keep in mind. For yesterday is gone. Tomorrow is not a garauntee. But today. Today is all ours to do with it as we wish.
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it means that you are not missing what is going on around you because you are either agonizing over things in the past, or too busy worrying and planning for the future. live in the present. enjoy your life as it is right now, it can change in an instant. there is another saying that goes something like 'tomorrow is not promised to us.' savor the sunset, kiss the girl, play with the kids.
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Ahh, to be young again.  I remember days like this but someone usually stepped in to assist or break it up.\n\nIn this video, people just continue about their business, like there is nothing unusual happening!  I am saddened that the world has come to this.  This (our young adults) is our future and it appears that they are a bunch of uncaring morons!!!\n\nAnd that someone would record this and laugh and not try to stop it???\n\nApparently, past values have no place in this world!  We, as a people have learned little!\n\nAnd these are the people who will lead the world in the future???\n\nI am deeply saddened as you, too should be!\n\nIMHO,\n\nThe Ol' Sasquatch Ü
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You'll know the future when it becomes the present.  Contemplating the universe gives a headache anyways, so just wait and see what happens.
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Try and do are two different things.  I will do what I do in 2006.  I live in the present (and currently it is 2006).  I can review my past to learn from my mistakes without living there.  I have not need to re-live that which I have already experienced.  I can plan for some future events without dwelling on expectations.  Tomorrow never gets here.
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No, but I just started doing it a day ago and they only ever tell me stuff of the far future, not like if it's gonna rain tomorrow. But, I can see how stuff can turn out and why. It's the power of the mind.
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Because people now are self centered and selfish. People think only of their self.This is the me me generation
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sieze the moment while they stay...\ntry to find satisfaction in what you are and how you are, not what u could be or should be...\nlive in present\nsomeone said, when we think about past we regret, when we think about future, we fear, but there is a present to think of and as long as you live there will always be...\n\nhave a great life buddy!!
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Yes. Think about everything that has happened in your life. (I have no idea how old you are) Now think from the now(the present) and go backwards (to the past) don't go too fast. Now ask yourself, Why did I make that particular decision? Look at what led to you making that decision, the events, how you felt, and why you didn't make a different decision. Something prompted you make a particular decision. (I hope I haven't lost you by now, bear with me for a moment more) Even before you made that decision there were other decisions and so on and so forth. Believe it or not our decisions we make now affect what decisions we make later. Put it this way they affect the process for us to make the next decision. So yes,I believe "Everything happens for a reason".
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Thinking about the past..."it distracts from the now."
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People like to say things like "The good old days" which is a lot of crap. What they do is take the fear out which exist every minute at any time. People also died young. No generation has it better when you come down to it.
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Because people in general think that bads things will not happen to them.  That they'll happen to the other guy.  A lot of people also don't look to the future, they just live and think about today.
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Because everyone wants everything NOW NOW NOW. And then realise after they have given someone the s**ts that it really wasn't that important.
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You cannot go into the past beyond your own birth and the future for the same reason. In both cases non-existence cannot be overcome. You may live to 100 but you have not yet so....you cannot visit yourself, there is nothing to visit. When you get to 100 you can visit yourself at 20 and so see yourself at 100 and see the future that way.\n\nTime travel  will always be limited to a persons life time i am afraid and the events that occured during it. No hunting dinosaurs, Hitler killing, Cruxifiction visiting.\n\nThis is the reason no one from the future has visited us yet. Once the future becomes the present and they invent time travel they can but only if the people who invent it and use it are alive now.\n\nGet it.\n\nIt a paradox I know but.....
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We all need to start living for the future NOT the past,You cant change the past But you can look for a better future
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Because it's a good way to enjoy our youth! Making people feel envy 4 it! And then... one day.... we will be as old as the people we disrespect, ain't that fair?
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nah...\n\nPeople have been complaining that the current generation is worse than the past ones literally since Aristotle. Times changes, as do attitudes and fads. Sometimes the old folks (and that would probaby include me at 44) sometimes don't keep up with it and have a lot of nostalgia for what they *think* was there youth.