It is so easy to spend all your time plotting and planning for the future. That is so much of what we all do everyday. I think it's partially trying to achieve a sense of control and partially trying to avoid the current moments.
I like to plan things because it brings me joy and excitement for a future where things will be better, happier, more exciting, etc. Now is lacking and I seek was it is missing by planning for it in the future.
It also helps me to feel safe by seeming concrete and stable. By making plans, I feel like I have achieved something and have some control over the very uncertain future.
The problem with plans of course is that we waste away the now, looking into a nonexistent future and then become attached to this fictitious future and feel loss and pain when it fails to materialize.
So what can be done? How do I stop planning or at least stop using the planning as a life raft? How do I start living more in the now and less in the tomorrow?
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