Present Moment Is All You Have: Redefining Your Relationship With Time

How mindfulness improves your sense of time and why being present matters in life.

Generated by Leonardo AI, edited by me.

This realization was, productivity-wise (and not only), very helpful for me. Is it gaslighting yourself to make the best of a present moment? Maybe. Does it work? Hell yeah. Anyway, a short and more philosophical, flexible dive this week.

Past

False memory is a phenomenon where people recall events inaccurately or even remember things that never happened. Suggestions, stress, time, beliefs, prejudices — all contribute to this. Your mind reshapes memories — sometimes to protect your ego, sometimes to fit to the narrative you want others to see. The same is true for others; everyone bends the past in small and smaller ways.

The bottom line is: Your past is different from someone else’s past.

The past is to take lessons from. Nothing more, nothing less. Nostalgia is sometimes nice, sometimes depressing, but it serves no practical purpose. Trying to bring the past to the present is a try to comfort yourself with pleasant memories. It’s like wrapping yourself in a warm blanket on a cold winter night: it’s comfortable and all but you have to eventually leave it.