If you think about it, we as human beings are guilty of taking life for granted. Whether it be through our college experience, the lunch plans we made for next week or the vacations we have lined up, we forget to appreciate the now. When did living in the present become so mainstream that even the basic b*tches of the world don't want to do it?
We spend so much time waiting for time to pass — ironic isn't it? We are never truly content with living in the moment. As much as people preach that you have to live in the present, we don’t. We’re too busy planning our next trip or waiting for the school year to start that we forget to enjoy ourselves right then and there. And even after what we've been waiting for has arrived, we rarely appreciate it. Instead, we find ourselves waiting for something else.
Think about it. You're always waiting for the weekend, for the things you have planned with your friends or family, or in my case, to live in another country for four months. It’s OK to be excited for the future, that’s encouraged, because if you're not, then do you really have any drive? What I'm trying to say is, even though I'm excited to go abroad, I'm also excited to return to school for the Spring semester. Maybe that means I got lucky and love college, but I'm going to foreign country for crying out loud, something many people go their whole lives without doing, so why am I fixated on coming home already? (Ask me again in four months if I want to come home, I will probably say no.)
And it’s not just me; everyone has done it at one point or another. People wish away high school because they can’t wait for college, being single because they're itching to be in a relationship, and somewhere out there someone is wishing away college because they're anxious to enter the real world. (I don't know anyone wishing away their college years but I'm sure they exist.)
You have to remember; the grass isn't always greener on the other side. It might sound unbearably corny, but it’s true.
I believe this simply has to do with how we are programmed. Nothing is ever good enough. We're always searching for the next best thing, and we always want what we can't have — it’s human nature. I have yet to meet someone who is 100 percent satisfied with what they have right now.
Sure you might love your life, but don’t lie, we all know you're patiently counting down the days until something. We take life amongst other things for granted because we think they will always be there in our lives, that we have all the time in the world and sometimes that is not the case.
You could say we're all a little f*cked up in the head for thinking this way, for wishing the days, months and even years away. I think it’s because we want to believe that the future holds better days. But who’s to say? The best and worst part of life is that you never know what’s going to happen. So try to stay content with the now through all of your excitement for the future.
