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Why Is It So Hard to Be in the Present?
Connections to people, places, things, and linear time can disempower you.
This is true for everyone, everywhere: The only time that is actually, factually real, is the present. Right now. This moment, here and now.
The past has come and gone. What happened before can, will, and does impact your life. However, that impact can vary pretty wildly, especially if you leave it unobserved. More on that ahead.
The future is just that. The future. It hasn’t happened yet. What it will look like you can, will, and do impact. However, vast swaths of it are utterly not in your control. Things occur that can’t be predicted, expected, or otherwise controlled. It is uncertain, and it’s that uncertainty that often draws attention to the future in disempowering ways.
The past cannot be altered, changed, undone, or redone. Yet look at all the people who want to, for example, “Make America Great Again.” The whole concept is built on the notion of bringing the past into the present somehow. A past that, frankly, never truly existed. This is monstrously disempowering to the masses (which, on close examination, you can see is the point of it.)
Likewise, the future cannot be forced, shaped, accurately predicted, or molded into being. It will happen…
