2006-11-26 18:06:38 · 17 answers · asked by ? 2 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
It passes more quickly than we can make plans.
2006-11-26 18:44:12 · answer #1 · answered by ameylee 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Yes, Be Here Now! Don't get so involved with planning and working for your future that you forget you have today. TAke time to watch the sunrise or sunset. Tell a friend how much they mean to you. Tell your family you love them. Be grateful for all the good things you have even if you have to make a list.Thank someone who has helped you out in some way. Thank God for your life.
In the end you will feel your life has actually been lived by you and has not passed you by.
LL
2006-11-27 02:33:40 · answer #2 · answered by LeapingLizard 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I believe some will agree with you.....
But, with an open eye, we can walk into the future, by looking back at the things that we've experienced.... If we can change who we are one day at a time for the better, then the future looks good.....
and oh what a book of experiences we have.... Only those in the future can see what we were in the past...... We can only remember until we are not.......
Your sister,
Ginger
2006-11-27 03:03:50 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes, at a time in my past life, I used to planned and work toward a future that I dream of, but, now, I just pass day by day. Guess that's sign of a tired heart and mind.
2006-11-27 02:33:22 · answer #4 · answered by Doris T 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
NO!
Life is how we make it, regardless of whether we make plans for the future or not.
Some things and events happen in our lives because we planned it so. Some enter into the equation by sheer accident and we cope and make contingent actions. All others we have no control, like it is time to have dinner because it is sundown and we have to do the routines and all others. Everything else, we sit back and ENJOY! ... [or suffer].
2006-11-27 02:18:10 · answer #5 · answered by Bummerang 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
yes-
read my poem-
TICKING TIME
Rushing to the finish line,
Never keeping track of time,
As the days pass, so do the weeks,
Months and years, the clock ticks.
Never looking at today,
And always planning for one day
As if one day will always come,
So you say why bother with this one.
Never took a look around,
And paid attention to each sound
Never looked up at the sky,
And admired the birds fly
Never looked down at the ground,
And saw the creatures roam around
Never stopped to realize,
Your life is fading before your eyes
Just a minute in a day,
Is not too much to take away
Just to see what life is worth
On this place that we call Earth.
Everything will one day pass
So try and make the moments last
Good or bad, things go away
All of them will end one day.
It’s your choice to take the time
Before you reach your finish line.
2006-11-27 02:09:45 · answer #6 · answered by BuRn Di WiSdOm WeEd 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Except for defying death, we have options to make life what it is. Our options supersede our lives and our destinies.
Life passes through our plans that we have set forth by evaluating our options. For example, when we are having fun with friends we don't make plans for future while we're having fun at that moment. However, we adjust our plans by evaluating our options.
Life is what we make of it, including its plans and adjustments. Life is "today" with all its plans. Some of our plans may carry over to the future, but future will be lived like today, also with all its plans.
2006-11-27 03:05:57 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
That is really a great statement. Life is here and now..... the rest is merely in our minds.
However, we do make plans for the future ....... a gamble we have to take to improve our future by sacrificing parts of the present.
2006-11-27 04:17:19 · answer #8 · answered by small 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is so true so real so beautiful and kind of sad. I agree with you but for those fast urban industrial and money baby money types of societies. You will still find people who live a very happy satisfied life with no regrets and no heavy bags of sins on their shoulders. They are living in less developed countries in far off places.Our media wont show them because they want to tell us only famine , war stricken poor African and other 3rd world countries so that we should be thankful to our god of capitalism who is giving us money , sex, drugs,freedom to insult and humiliate other cultures and religions, and just want us to work day and night on minimum wages to keep the system running. I think it is my time to take my anti depressants and a sleeping pill.As i have to start my 9 to 5 prayer in the church of holy stock exchange.
2006-11-27 02:55:03 · answer #9 · answered by papu 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
It's easy to say that I agree that this is true, but more importantly, I think, the point being made by this statement is not to get so caught up in planning, thinking, feeling, doing, that we forget to recognize the significance of the relationship between life and ourselves. Why is that imporant???? Well, it took me a long time, 40 years, to figure it out. First, what exactly is meant by the term 'life'? For me, life is one long string of contradictions after another. Everytime I thought I knew the truth of something, there came a moment when I learned I was wrong about my beliefs.
And, that brings me to grips with the significance of my relationship with life. If the logic holds true here, then every time I'm confronted with a truth that contradicts a previous truth, I am thus engaged in a moment of learning. I've learned something new, something I did not know before. It's a discovery that there is a larger truth than the truth by which I'd been living my life. When I see life in this way, it reduces life to one long process of learning. I tell my students early on in all my classes that we do three things in life: We're born, we learn, and we die.
I tell them that so they will have the opportunity to stop struggling against the bottom line that is life. If all life is, is learning then why do we humans struggle so against it. Every day, I get up to go teach, to learn, and every day I hate the idea of going, but once there, I'm fine and feel alive again, teaching/learning in the discourse between my students and me and the rest of the world outside the classroom. Why do I fight it so, if that's all life is anyway???
One would think we humans, knowing the inevitability of learning, should logically be looking forward to it every waking moment. But, there is another part of us too. That part, funny thing here, contradicts this logic in the form of our fear of the unknown. The nature of learning is confronting the unknown. It's seeing our ignorance at work, so to speak. How have we humans been trained to regard the Unknown? Why, with fear, of course. What we don't know will hurt us, right???
When I was a very small boy, my grandmother used to take us to the drive in theatre at night. They don't exist anymore, but it's a big movie screen out of doors in a big field wiring speakers to hook up to the window sill of a car. Anyway, when we got home at night, and remember this is in the fifties, and you did not lock your doors back then, and my grandmother's first words walking into the house were: Go look under the beds to make sure nobody is hiding in the house. Now, I'm what, four, five years old? And, she thinks I'm going to do that without being afraid of what I might find under there? Contradictions all around here.
And, that is what children of my generation learned about the nature of the Unknown. So, it's kinda natural that I woul have an ingrained fear of it that is difficult for me to overcome at the age of 57. I'm still working on it. This unconscious fear of the unknown makes my relationship to life one of constant contradiction with my human nature to learn as the very fundament that is life. So, we humans like to plan, to ward off the evil unknown, to create order out of the chaos that is the unknown. And, all the while, life is passing by, or passing me by. And, suddenly, the future is no more because of that third fateful step, that last thing we do after learning, we die.
I urge everyone to celebrate life. I didn't, and much of my planned future did not happen because I was too afraid of learning to be able to embrace it. So, I'm laying here in bed with a broken back and a broken spirit that I must constantly be fixing, while I feel it is far too late to change anything for myself. But, then, those who can't, teach, right?
2006-11-27 03:27:53 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋