20 July 2007

the meaning of present

If you don't believe in a past and you don't believe in a future, then you must be lost, for a present without anchors can only float aimlessly.

If you don't believe in a past and you believe in a future, then the present is like a burden. You are impatient to die.

If you believe in a past and you don't believe in a future, then the present is a pioneer, mitigating the nostalgia for a vanished past and the terror of an uncertain future. Be brave.

If you believe in a past and you believe in a future, then the present is a frontier, the imaginary time delineating your memories and your hopes. When you can remember and still hope is when you know you are in the present.

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