When you meet someone for the first time, all you have is the present. The possibilities trigger wonder.
That wonder ensures you project into the future, favorable possibilities and outcomes.
Your projections make you miss critical observations in the present, ensuring that the past looks slightly different than the lived present.
This mismatch brings a strain that is held in the present. Time is spent trying to form a continuous link between a fixed past and a fluid future.
We start judging in the present, what was, and what is to come. The present begins to fade, until all you have left are memories and possibilities, no observations.
The essence of life is to meet every day like you are meeting someone for the first time. All you have is the present. The possibilities trigger wonder.
– Osasu Oviawe