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Past and Future the Present

June 18, 2010
By Khoi_Luong-Tran GOLD, Peterborough, New Hampshire
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Khoi_Luong-Tran GOLD, Peterborough, New Hampshire
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When we see change in the world we treat it as something taboo in the beginning, but when we see its benefits and rewards we accept it and make a normality

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When all is forgotten
the past becomes irrelevant.
When the future becomes hopeless
the present becomes pointless.
When the gift becomes the now
the past and the future is the present

© Julia K., Nagykovacsi, Hungary

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Live in the Now, for it is a gift, that is why it is the present.
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