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 %TIME FUTURE EXPECT ANTICIPATE INTEND CONTROL FAIL 901027

     Many  human disappointments have to do with the human
sense of time:  past, present and future.  Disappointments
have to do with regret,   shame,  guilt,  tension,   fear;
all  within the context of our sense of time.   Things  do
not  turn   out as we hoped,    intended,   expected,   or
anticipated that they would. We turn out not to be able to
control  the  course of events as well as  we  thought  we
could,  should, might.  If we  could not remember the past
and  could  not  think  about the  future,   we  would  be
spared    many   disappointments    and   many     painful
preoccupations.   We might be more prone  to live  in  the
eternal now  within  I-Thou  relationships,  rather   than
trapped  between  the regretted past  and   the  uncertain
future   in   our  worlds  of   technical   understanding,
predicting  and control.  We are usually unable to try  to
control time without creating unnecessary disappointments;
and  it  is  never  too late to learn to  quit  trying  to
control   time  in  trying  to  control  what  cannot   be
controlled.

                                                                                                                               
                         (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in      
                    (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy)  
                                                                                                                               
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