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Daily writing prompt

Do you spend more time thinking about the future or the past? Why?

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I’ve heard a lot of ideas about not focusing on the past or the future and instead staying in the moment. Of course, that can’t be an absolute. Memory tells me who my wife is and I have to spend some time thinking about the future to keep my appointments. It’s funny, I need a memory to think about the past and an imagination to project what might happen in the future. I always got a kick out of the 1967 song “Let’s Live For Today,” by the Grass Roots. They covered the same sentiments about worrying about the future. Of course, it is easy to avoid the future, when there’s a girl to love…”When others plan their future, I’m busy loving you…One, two, three, four…Shah-la, la-la-la-la, live for today…” I don’t know if they were masking a case for living in the present, because that would be: live in the day, not for… But I digress. Since I reduced my television time, living in the moment is easier. The quiet makes my writer’s block more obvious, but hasn’t helped me overcome it. I suppose I have to tackle some of the other distractions that keep me away from my desk, like smudges on the window, Christmas lights that won’t work because it’s raining not snowing, and whether the cat is stealing my chair again. Stay in the present…