I’m currently in the “one day” phase. Enjoy those friendships while they last. You will miss them.
Stop living in the past and live now. Everything becomes a memory.
That moment where you don’t even have memories of the good times anymore.
I don’t really have an issue with that, a little nostalgia is ok. The stuff that does bug me is friendships that have disappeared. Whether just by distance and time or because the people in it have changed so much that you can’t really relate well anymore.
currently at my cubicle preparing a presentation, wishing this moment will once forget
Enjoy the moment for what it is, not worrying about if you’ll be able to do this later in life. You’ll have plenty of rewarding experiences later in life they’ll just be different experiences because your priorities change and what you find enjoyable changes.
That’s a dope wood carving of a turtle
This picture triggers something inside me. I am glad you posted it not on a Friday or Saturday and the mild summer evenings and nights full of atmosphere are gone for this year, otherwise it would hit harder.
Everything you do is carved into that exact time and location in the universe, nothing can change it or take it away, yet it leaves all the same.
Some people call that mindfulness and pay professionals to achieve that state. Others, like me, consider it hell to be constantly aware of this without the ability to turn it off.
It’s definitely not mindfulness, pretty much the total opposite of it actually. Mindfulness means being present in the moment, but this thought is literally worrying about the future. Worrying about the future is exactly what mindfulness is supposed to solve.
I love it when that happens, because it’s like I got my wish - here I am living it.
One day we’ll leave this world behind, so live a life you will remember
The view out that window could be any number of European cities.
I’m guessing Madrid
Paris for sure, interior & outside match 100%.
looks a lot like Paris.
A few details in this picture are giving me stereotypical Paris or at least french vibes aswell.
That could easily be the French Quarter, Meringy or The Garden District in New Orleans.
Isn’t that the point of life, to collect fond memories?
Feels that way, till you get older and if your like me you realize maybe it’s not because when i talk with friends about stuff 20-30 years ago I am sad that I either don’t remember some stuff, or don’t remember the event at all and it kills me. Without memories what did it matter? Don’t get me wrong I still remember a lot, but its definitely creeping in now that I probably will only get worse going forward.
If it’s a memory you wish you could relive… Why don’t you just live it while you have the chance?
Responsibilities.
They’re tough to avoid without living a lower quality of life. They come at you fast and consistently somewhere between age 15 and 35, depending on how much money your parents are able and willing to share with you.
What does that have to do with living in the moment?
You missed the point completely. Their comment wasn’t about not being able to make the memories, but about when you already are in the moment, you should not be thinking about how in the future you’ll wistfully look back on this moment, but rather, just enjoy the moment.
Idk why you’re getting downvotes, you’re exactly right
Probably because more people missed the point completely :D
I don’t know about you, but I view the acknowledgement that this moment will be a core memory for me moving forward to be one of the highest forms of enjoyment I can have. You can have that thought while simultaneously participating in the moment itself - it’s not an either/or thing.
Sure, I wasn’t arguing about that, just explaining what that person meant. They probably thought that a thought like this takes you out of the moment, instead of improving it. I think for most people, a thought like this makes the moment worse, not better.
