Do you ever enjoy the present, or are you always waiting for the next thing?

-- Anonymous, June 22, 2000

Answers

I may be living in the present every now and then (at the moments of stillness, if you know what I mean), but that's only temporarily. Mostly, I get my kicks from planning/dreaming about the future (believe me, it's almost ridiculous at times) - but also looking back the good points of my life (there are such, honestly). Of course, there's always a slight nostalgia involved in memorizing, but I think I've learned to really enjoy the memories instead of wanting to be in the situation again.

-- Anonymous, June 22, 2000

I'm the other way around - I always look back to the past. Not everything in my past has been good, but a lot of it has. What's more, I know it was good - whereas if I look to the future, I don't know for sure that that will be good. So I look back to all the good times in my past, and wish I was back there.

-- Anonymous, June 22, 2000

I agree with Helen. I don't know what lies ahead, but I do know what has happened. I prefer to know and remember than not know and worry.

-- Anonymous, June 22, 2000

i'm going to eastern illinois university too. maybe we should meet up? hahahaha. i live in naperville. see you there.

-- Anonymous, June 22, 2000

I'm always looking to the future as well. As soon as I became a sophomore in high school (freshman year was pretty good. It all went downhill from there), I wanted to go to college. Now that I'm in college, I can't wait to be in grad school. No phase of my life ever seems to meet my expectations, but I'm always wanting to change my situation rather than myself. You know the saying, "Wherever you go, there you are"? I should really apply that to my life a little more. I'm still going to be the same ME whether I'm in college or grad school or whatever.

-- Anonymous, June 22, 2000

I'm forever aiming for the future. I practically already live there.

-- Anonymous, June 22, 2000

i usually just like.. enjoy what's happening, but make a mental list of all the stuff i'm looking forward to. but i look forward to stupid things, like going to the dentist and buying tape and shit. so yeah.

basically i enjoy everything.

-- Anonymous, June 23, 2000

I live in the happy times of the past, but am forever wanting the future to hurry up and arrive. Only when it does, it never meets my expectations. I was desperate to leave school and have my three-month summer holiday; then I was desperate for it to end so I could go to uni; then, when I got there, I desperately wanted to leave so I could get a job; and since starting to work, I've been counting the days till I can go back to uni. Argh.

And typically, on this, my last day of work, I think I'm actually going to miss it, and wish I'd made more of the time I had here.

-- Anonymous, June 23, 2000

The only times that I'm willing to look forward to the future is when I know something is coming up like a trip or big event, otherwise I'm too much of a coward and fear the future since I can't see it. I live in the present every once in a while, but mostly I continuously stumble through past, being good or bad, because it's what I know and pretty much over.

-- Anonymous, June 23, 2000

i sort of do both. the past is rarely an issue anymore, but since it used to be, i spend most time trying to make the future past(aka the present) NOT SUCK. and the future...?...i look ahead, but not too far, and i plan a lot of things, only about half of which i end up fulfilling SO...the present, mostly the present...

-- Anonymous, June 23, 2000