Friday, April 8, 2011

A Brief History of the Present

I heard this years ago on Ministry's "Jesus Built My Hot Rod." I think it's a sample from a movie about driving big trucks, but it reverberates throughout many chambers of the mind:

"Where you come from is gone; where you thought you were goin to weren't never there, and where you are ain't no good unless you can get away from it." - unknown


Translation: The past is over, the future ain't real, and the present is so fleeting as to already be the past.

If you don't keep moving and attentive, you live in the past, and you're over.

If you over-think the future, or you're living somewhere that ain't real. And the present constantly escapes you.

And right now the present is calling me to preparations for the immediate future.

This update brought to you by the past. See you in another present.

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