Those who worry about future are failing to profit from the Present
Seneca - Letters from a StoicMuch of the pain is due to the projecting life into forward;
and that induce fear and anxiety - instead why dont you profit from the present?
Fear and hope are like lock chain - they go in lock-step with each other;
Arnold Bennett : says this :
we are like the Italian donkeys - whose pace may be hurried by fixing a stick on their heads with stack of hay at end of it;
Hay is always in front of the donkey ; and they keep trying to get at it;
we go on living like the donkey, ad interim;
until at last we die;
What we call business is purely above : chasing incentives : the next year and the next quarter : i am a donkey; the italian donkey; whatever sugarcoating i can put on ; i am just that;
As Thoreau calls it : "Its a fool's life , having coming to the end of life, we realize that we have not lived at all"
Better I take charge of the Present
Authors
Seneca
Arnold Bennett
Henry David Thoreau