Stealing from the Present

Stealing from the Present

Jeremy Epstein Jeremy Epstein

Jeremy Epstein

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发布日期: 2025年3月13日
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Letting go of past regrets and emotions is a skill that can be developed.

One practice is to find something that you think is sentimental, look at it, savor it, and then recycle it/throw it away.

Since life is a big dress rehearsal for the ultimate letting go, this muscle can be developed.

But the other side of the present is the future.

Instead of focusing on the now, there’s a lot of mind energy that is devoted to the future.

Some is good. I mean, I’m a big believer in preparation.

But that balance of over-preparing, bordering on obsessing about the future.

It just steals from the NOW, the present.

Which, ironically, leads to regret.

Cue cycle again.

But perhaps that’s the practice.

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