The future is tricky. We are so quick to put off work from today onto a future date, but then we regret it when the future arrives. Credit cards get maxed out and it pinches to pay them back. We knew the future would come, but we almost didn’t believe it.
We also can look back on things we regret deeply. Many of those things we knew at the moment were not good or useful things, but we thought that the future would sort it out. The problem is, the future doesn’t sort it out, it just eventually places us in a bad way where we have no options remaining.
Imagine if we all had the respect for the future that we have for the moment. We wouldn’t write checks today that we can’t cash tomorrow. We would be more ruthless in our endeavors, but also more upright.
I think, also, we wouldn’t suffer as much.
Respect the future by taking care not to become a slave to the moment. The moment is never as big as you feel it is.