Why We Always Think About the Past and the Future?

^{If you are wondering and always thinking about the future and past then you have not been living under a rock. The whole subject of philosophy is full of endless debate.}

^{Some philosophers say that philosophy ends at the thought of philosophy. On the other hand, some philosophers say that there is no such thing as philosophy, for there is no such thing as philosophy. Both arguments have some merit to them.}

^{Philosophers come and go, leaving all kinds of questions unanswered because they are busy thinking about the future and the past. When someone asks you, “what is philosophy?” You could answer to, “thinking about the future and the past.” Or, “asking about the past.”}

^{The problem with answering the question of why we always think about the past and the future is that you are giving people an answer without being able to verify it. Because if you cannot verify a belief, you are not able to know if it is true or false. What we call reality is a flux, which means that it is always changing.}

^{Everything in this world is constantly changing, and the future is still up to us. The question of why we always think about the past and the future is irrelevant because we will never know the truth.}

^{So the real question becomes, “Why do we think about the future and the past?” It’s because we need to have a way of planning for the future so that if it does happen, then we can prepare ourselves to deal with it.}

^{And sometimes things in life just happen unexpectedly, but it is good to be prepared for them.}

_{To prepare for the unknown, it is good to think about what you can do when something unexpected happens. We don’t always think about the good things in life and the future, so it’s important to focus on those things. Why do we always think about the future and the past? There are three reasons for that.}

^{The first reason is that we have been trained from birth to think that the future is bad and that we should focus on the now and the here and now and try to make as many things happen to us as possible to avoid the unknown.}

^{Which is not necessarily a bad thing. In fact, by focusing on the now and the here and now, we often find ourselves living in the moment, appreciating what is around us, and sometimes even living in the future.}

^{The second reason is that we are scared. We are afraid of what might be. We are scared of what we might lose and what we might succeed at. The fear of failure makes us focus on the now and the past and the future and this is where most people get stuck. So they focus on the now and the past and they don’t realize that the future is always going to be there.}

^{The third reason why we are stuck is that most of the time, we don’t ask for help. Most of the time, we sit back and we let others help us and we sit back and we wait for them to do their part.}

^{That’s a mistake because you have to ask for help. Sometimes it may seem like it’s not worth it, but that’s not true. It’s not worth it, not when you have friends and family that are willing to stand up for you and give you the support that you need to move forward.}

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