Men spend their lives in anticipations, –in determining to be vastly happy at some period when they have time. But the present time has one advantage over every other–it is our own. Past opportunities are gone, future have not come. We may lay in a stock of pleasures, as we would lay in a stock of wine; but if we defer the tasting of them too long, we shall find that both are soured by age. Charles Caleb Colton
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The best thing about living in the present is that it’s your own. You have the opportunity to make your own decisions and you can experience all of life’s ups and downs. But, there are some people who are always trying to predict the future, to determine what they will do with their lives. They spend lifetimes dreaming up a life that hasn’t happened yet, trying to determine what they should do, what they should have done, and how they should feel once they get there.

The truth is that the only person you can control is yourself. However, many people lose sight of this fact because of all of their visions for what life could be like. They try to live up to what they imagine but never achieve it.

And then they end up disappointed when nothing comes to pass as imagined.

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