Philosophical Rumination of the Day

I’ve been reading a lot of texts lately that talk about living “in the moment,” which is something that I’ve always been bad about. I’m always looking for the next moment, just over the hill, the next moment because it has to be better than this one. And I see a lot of wisdom in not taking this moment, or this day, or whatever feeling you have for that hour for granted. A lot of good comes from appreciating that life is a series of moments, linked only by our perspective of them. But I think it’s important to have a sense of future perspective, too. It’s important to remember that however we act in that moment, that hour, that day, we can’t do over once its past . We can never go back and change our moments, as much as we might like to do so. It should therefore be important, when we’re in the moment, to make it one that we won’t want to erase in the future. We can’t control the future, but we can at least control how we look back on ourselves, on our moments, when the future comes.