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Look Around
The time we spend looking at the road ahead, the time we ask what the future will hold, all the time we ask ourselfs, what will our lives be like in the future. All of these questions are pointless, if you don't look around at what you have now. People ask themselves about things in the future, but I guarantee that those people who look into only the future, would not look at the things around them when the future becomes present. Now I'm not saying that people shouldn't try to look into the future, if no one did, we wouldn't be where we are now, but also, you must look at what the present in front of you holds, you must look at what you have now, not at what you might have later, or at what could happen later. People say that time flies by very quickly sometimes, even if the time that flies is years. But if you stop looking into the future, and start looking at what you have around you right now, the time will go slower and you will be able to capture more of it. Life is a road, and everyone walks it, but some people strain their eyes just to see what lies ahead, where as other people look around them as they walk, look at the people look at the beauty of everything around them. I am not one of these people that can just stop and look around though, I am someone who likes to see what the future holds, but also I am one who will stop dead in my tracks while on a walk, lift my head up from looking at my feet, and take a few moments to look around at the beauty of today, and I don't just mean technology, who knows, in ten years most of the beautiful things in nature may be gone or close to it. So stop trying to see only what may be in the future, try to look at what is around you right now, and cherish it. Becuase it may be gone by the time you know it, or the future will come, and you will be staring off towards the future once again.

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I see that people are often saying "I wonder what things will change a few years from now" or something along those lines, I don't really see people saying how now is good and nice and how we need to stop trying to make things better, I wish more people could say things like that, but it doesn't seem to be happening.