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Anticipating the future can distract from the present

Kareem Amin recalls imagining how he would share his retreat experiences at home and losing attention to the place he was in.

Kareem Amin·Published

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The Philosopher CEO | Clay Co-Founder Kareem Amin

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And then on day seven out of ten, I was like, “Oh, I can’t wait to go back home and tell everybody about all these things that I realized.”
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But I’ll give you an insight that I had about living in the future. I was on this silent retreat and, like, you know, crazy things happened and I had these big realizations. And I was just imagining it and just completely letting go of the place that I was at. And then I realized every time you’re picturing the future or living in the future, you’re just accelerating your own time that you’ve got here and you’re accelerating towards death. So to me, that kind of feels like the Freudian death wish where you’re just imagining something that is not here, that is going to happen in the future, and you’re always there. And then I instantly kind of had this felt experience of …

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