Is the present moment an obstacle

Scanlas The 2nd

What percentage of the time do you treat the present moment as merely an obstacle to get to some point in the future? and then when you get there the present moment is still just an obstacle to some other point in the future, and on and on this goes.

When you think about it, the present moment is all there ever is, and if you aren't happy in the present moment most of the time then you are spending most of your life unhappy. Like the dog forever chasing its tail.

bonerm

deep.

brummytom

Scanlas The 2nd wrote: »

What percentage of the time do you treat the present moment as merely an obstacle to get to some point in the future?

I don't, I take each day as it comes.


As Bob Dylan so greatly put it, "let me forget about today until tomorrow"

Dunjohn

Solution: Stop calling it an obstacle.

Daemos

Someone's been watching too much FlashForward

MrPain

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=astISOttCQ0

we'llallhavetea_old

people who constantly strive for the next turning point in their lives are called (i think) miserable bastards.

Gillington

I wish I was as stoned as the OP

Daemos

Serious answer, if you don't like the present make an effort to make your future better.

biko

Present... something... something... gift!

Scanlas The 2nd

I used to always do it. It was horrible, and stressful. I'd usually have some event in the future like a holiday that would be the time when I'd be happy, then I get to the airport and stand in que looking forward to getting on the plane... but thats not good either...then I looked forward to landing... but then I wont be happy until the coach brings us to the apartment... but then I won't be happy until I get to the beach...then I wouldn't be happy until I got a drink........and on a on it goes and next thing you know you are on the plane home having wasted your holiday in your head.

Overheal

Its a really tough moment. When you open it up, and its The Grinch(tm) Pyjama Pants? And your aging mother expects you to wear them?

Its definitely rough man.

Super-Rush

Scanlas The 2nd wrote: »

I used to always do it. It was horrible, and stressful. I'd usually have some event in the future like a holiday that would be the time when I'd be happy, then I get to the airport and stand in que looking forward to getting on the plane... but thats not good either...then I looked forward to landing... but then I wont be happy until the coach brings us to the apartment... but then I won't be happy until I get to the beach...then I wouldn't be happy until I got a drink........and on a on it goes and next thing you know you are on the plane home having wasted your holiday in your head.

Stop over complicating things. Live in the moment.

epgc3fyqirnbsx

aw man now I'm gonna get sad...

f*ckin exams and unemployment

kowloon

On the other hand, how many people are alive solely out of hope that things will improve for them?

Sea Sharp

Well if you neglect the obstacles and just live for the present in three days you will be lying in your own feces and really hungry unless, of course, you decide to eat your own feces.
What type of sicko are you OP?!!!!

cynder

Magnus wrote: »

Present... something... something... gift!

Yesterday is history, tommorrow is a mystery and today is a gift. A present

OutlawPete

I do tend to treat most days like they are obstacles but maybe that's cause most of my days are fcuking obstacles.

I just wanna go to the cinema, listen to music, love, watch tv, laugh, eat, watch more tv, drive fast, be loved, go to the beach, have sex, surf the net, drink stuff, sleep and do it all again and but 9 times out of ten I can't do the above because of some fecking obstacle, not enough money, need to work, have to do this that or the other fecking thing.

So, in summary - life is a fcuking obstacle.

epgc3fyqirnbsx

OutlawPete wrote: »

I do tend to treat most days like they are obstacles but maybe that's cause most of my days are fcuking obstacles.

I just wanna go to the cinema, listen to music, love, watch tv, laugh, eat, watch more tv, drive fast, be loved, go to the beach, have sex, surf the net, drink stuff, sleep and do it all again and but 9 times out of ten I can't do the above because of some fecking obstacle, not enough money, need to work, have to do this that or the other fecking thing.

So, in summary - life is a fcuking obstacle.

Right you are

But it's great craic at the same time!

genericguy

Scanlas The 2nd wrote: »

Like the dog forever chasing its tail.

that could be the phd student mantra. fcuking academia.

alwaysadub

Scanlas The 2nd wrote: »

What percentage of the time do you treat the present moment as merely an obstacle to get to some point in the future? .

When im in work about 99.9% of the time-i am usually counting down the minutes till i can finish and fcuk off down the pub

AnonoBoy

MrPain wrote: »

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=astISOttCQ0

That's not the Gummi Bear song. This is:

kowloon

'Twould be great to have the ability to sleep through entire days on autopilot and only have to be concious when there's something good to do.

epgc3fyqirnbsx

Life is what happens when you're busy making other plans

Jumpy

AnonoBoy wrote: »

That's not the Gummi Bear song. This is:

LIES

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lJ2QTfmz33I

stovelid

Personally it's always the future perfect continuous that gets me.

AckwelFoley

My ribs are an obstacle hindering me from sucking my own dick

The present moment is merely a moment in time

Man sometimes i hate ribs

bonerm

snyper wrote: »

My ribs are an obstacle hindering me from sucking my own dick

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NYJCK_jdmiw

Earthhorse

I'm always living in the present. I'm living...now...no, now. No, now!

Now, now, now, now, now, now, now!

knird evol

Scanlas The 2nd wrote: »

... but thats not good either...then I looked forward to landing... but then I wont be happy until the coach brings us to the apartment... but then I won't be happy until I get to the beach...then I wouldn't be happy until I got a drink........and on a on it goes and next thing you know you are on the plane home having wasted your holiday in your head.

Ok so you get your drink, that you forgot to get on the way to the beach, now all you have to do is lie there relaxing on a sun drenched paradise beach for hours on end. Can't you be happy for hours on end. Couldn't you even lie there and be happy for just ten fcking minutes?

Gary L

OP, skin another joint and visit http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZqAKK9zcB7w

Naos

kowloon wrote: »

'Twould be great to have the ability to sleep through entire days on autopilot and only have to be concious when there's something good to do.

Ever see the movie 'Click'?

Also, the sh1t things make you realise how great the good things really are.

Mrmoe

I like the obstacles in life, they make things even sweeter when you overcome them. It might feel crap at the time but that is what makes you appreciate things.

epgc3fyqirnbsx

Sure this is it

Your situation is often a means to an end.
The trick is to enjoy that end for a while when you get there

IM0

what you call a hundred philosophers at the bottom of the sea?












a good start

stop thinking and get back in line with the rest of the saps

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D1zuAQAhhMI