Some people consider thinking about the future and planning for the future to be waste of time. They argue that people should simply live in the movement. Do you agree or disagree?

Planning and preparing for the future is one of the most important traits of human psyche, we have been taught how to plan for future in all business schools across the world. However, a view has been surfacing every now and then that we need to learn to stay in the present. My inclination falls in line with this view.

There are numerous reasons why I believe that living in the movement is true living firstly, living in the present movement is absolutely stress and tension free. Those who live in the present can enjoy and experience the movement so well that they are attuned to the right flow in their life and such flow almost always leads them to right future. It is a fact that humans do not have control over nature, and so, we should live the journey of life to the fullest. But, we keep planning for the future, which brings insecurity, stress and fear in all of us. It is rightly said by spiritual mystics that living in the future brings in fear.

Finally, living in the present always make people accept the things as they are. Such acceptance is essential if we need a happy and a healthy life. I have experienced that constant endeavour to plan for the future creates a feeling of non-acceptance of the present and if we reject the present, we simply cannot have a better future.

On the other hand, safeguarding the future is a notion that is widely accepted across the globe. I personally see nothing wrong with it. We ought to have goals and plans for the future. But, we must work and live in the now to let these plans manifest.

Conclusively, i firmly believe that having a future strategy is not bad, but, even to live up to that proposed projection, we must live in the present. Thus, I agree living in the present movement is the best way of living one’s life

One more answer

All the holly scriptures across the world have always given us one extra mantra to live life to its fullest and the mantra is ‘’live in the present movement”. It also quite obvious that those who have lived like this have never regretted anything in their life.

There are many reasons to support this. Firstly, I firmly believe that life exists in the now. Life, in its inherent nature is full of bliss and joy, and is completely free from stress and tension. To elaborate on it, I must say that the general orientation of the entire human race is based on fear of future. We fear about uncertainties that may happen in the future and hence we always try to ‘control’ things. In addition, we serve the fear and insecurity emerge out of our thoughts and we constantly engage ourselves in planning for future, preparing for the worst and in such a rush, we simply forget the movement in which we are alive. It is rightly said that whatever you are today is based on your thoughts of the past and future will also depend on how you spend your present.

Moreover, it is also true that if the present movement is lived fully, it always guides us into the right direction. I would like to quote an incident that happened in Gautam Budha’s life.  Once, he went to a village and begged for some food at lunch. He ate some of it and gave the remaining food to those who came to hear his discourse and asked them to feed any needy person. At that time, someone suggested to him that he should preserve his food for evening. What if he did not get food in the evening? To this, Budhdha replied, ‘’if I had worried about my next meal, I would have never left my home to preach people’’. This example speaks a lot about the subject of this essay.

In conclusion, I believe living in present is the most enlightening, spiritual and wonderful way of living life. This is what all ascended souls have taught us.