Daily writing prompt

Do you spend more time thinking about the future or the past? Why?

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The “Time Troika” … to answer this Bloganuary prompt, if I’m to be honest .. I think about those time references —

Future, Past, and as I’ll add in the next breath, Present —

These all meld together for me, a nearly constant swirl of thoughts, flashes, recollections, all coming together to inform my feelings, my beliefs, my actions.

I think about the Future usually in the context of goals, and constraints. What do I want to do in the time I have left. Each day. Each month. Each year.  I just recently wrote a bit about this, the increasing sense of my own mortality and how that has a now ever-increasing effect on me.

I think about the Past with gratitude, and with a deep desire to learn the lessons of my successes, my failures and mistakes, my good fortune. I want to learn and relearn those lessons. If I missed a good one, I try to catch it the next time I reflect; and the good reflections? Let them pour over me again and again. 

And I think about the Present. As the Van Halen song goes, “…RIGHT NOW, is your tomorrow…RIGHT NOW, it’s everything…” That’s all we really have. We know not the hour or the day we will be called. 

At my best these three time periods flash through in moments, giving me the best guidance for my next action. At my best that guidance gives me fortitude and resilience and belief and focus to accomplish. 

Let the troika pull you forward, and make it GOOD.