“Ensuring a successful future is more determined by ensuring a happy and meaningful present. A child living in enthusiasm learns to be enthusiastic. A child who does not enjoy or find meaningful or relevant the schooling experience but who learns to postpone their rights and interests to some future time ends up living for the future never to return to the present.” ~Self design program
What do you think? Do you agree with that?
I almost cried when I read that because it really resonated with me- especially the part of postponing my life for some future time, I feel like I have been doing that my whole life. This is the future, there is only right now in this moment. We could be hit by a bus tomorrow or become paraplegic and everything could get a whole lot more challenging~ so I need to live my life like right now is the easy time, like this is the best most exciting time in my life… and then it will be.
Isn’t that what all the popular adult self-help books are about? Learning to live in the now. The present. Because we’ve all postponed our lives for some out of reach future. This is so inspiring and right in line with the goals you were talking about setting for yourself. Just doing a little everyday of the things that you love.
I think I am doing a lot of postponing big time. I am waiting until I no longer have to work for a living in order to live what I want to do.