400 years have passed and nothing has changed. In the same way, we do not know how to live in the present, but only look forward to and rush the future or try to return the past, as if it had gone too soon …
“400 years have passed and nothing has changed. In the same way, we do not know how to live in the present, but only look forward to and rush the future or try to return the past, as if it had gone too soon … In fact, the present is the only thing we have. This evening, today, the week that has begun, a cup of coffee, a new dress — this is something worth paying attention to. Killing yourself over the past, which is very typical of me, is not only a meaningless occupation, but even dangerous, because you can get bogged down in it. I can’t say that I have completely rebuilt, but I try. I try to feel, to rejoice right now — that children have not yet grown up, parents have not grown old, you can learn something and have some desires. Let them sometimes impossible or stupid — it doesn’t matter. The main thing is that they are now. This feeling of simple joys that are always with you is much more important than the possible death of civilization in 2012. When you seriously remind yourself of this, then it really becomes a little easier and more joyful to live.
* Blaise Pascal — French religious thinker of the XNUMXth century, mathematician, physicist.