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We're just not used to it this business of taking care of the present. We've always aimed ourselves at the future (what do you see yourself doing five years from now?). The tips of our arrows have been dipped in hope and our bows have flung them forward, always forward.
Now we're being asked for something different—and something difficult. We can't send our arrows fletched with hope (hope is the thing with feathers) into the future because we can't see it—or even imagine it. If we let those arrows fly without knowing their destination they may boomerang and rain back on us. Who can know? As an aside I suppose I should acknowledge that a big whack of people think they know: every Op-Ed page, every blog purports to show us our future. I wouldn't believe them, if I were you.
I am not you, of course. I am me and I am agreeing with Jon Kabat-Zinn: here is where we are and need to be. If we start taking care of the present (and may I say that up to now we haven't made a very good job of it), we will shape the future as we go. We're doing it already, in many ways. Let's keep on.
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