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This is http://www.essayz.com/a9002051.htm Previous-Essay <== This-Essay ==> Following-Essay Click HERE on this line to find essays via Your-Key-Words. {Most frequent wordstarts of each essay will be put here.} ========================================================== %PAST PRESENT FUTURE EXPECT DISAPPOINT DESIRE JOY 900205 Much of human joy and disappointment have to do with the human ability to anticipate the future and remember the past. It would be otherwise if consciousness was always focused exclusively upon the present. We may regret the past, feel guilty about past actions, be shamed by others for what we have done. We may desire that things be different in the future, that we accomplish or achieve some particular goal by some specific future time etc. How well we feel about ourselves at some future time when it has become the present may well depend upon how wisely we anticipated, desired, and expected the course of our life to develop; and how we contributed to that development. Thus, how healthy we are depends upon how well we deal with the passage of our time; how we regard our past, our present and our future. Confusion, ignorance, and lack of realistic appraisals regarding temporal sequences are signs of a lack of health. To be healthy we need to have reasonable skill and honesty in predicting the consequences of choices. If we are not reasonably skilled and honest in predicting for ourselves what will likely happen if we do (or do not do) certain things, we are likely to suffer the consequences; and not correct our behavior because of our confusion, ignorance and lack of realistic appraisals. We may blame others for our own failures; and neither we nor they will profit from our inappropriately blaming of others. To profit from our mistakes we need to be clear about the connections between our attitudes, thinking, expectations, behaviors, and ways of understanding things; and how things turn out for us. If we are confused about cause and effect, anticipations/expectations and disappointment; then we are likely to suffer needless disintegrative consequences and be unhealthy. Then it will be difficult for us to learn from our mistakes and so it will be difficult for us to regain our health. (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy) ==========================================================