Now is the only thing that's Real

People will tell you you shouldn't dwell on the past, stop looking back, enjoy the now, wait for what's to come, you know the drill, you've heard it, I'm sure.

At the same time, we are programmed to always look back; to mull over events of the past, dissect them, hell even rank them. You'll start seeing (if you haven't already) evidence of this all over the media. The most this 2010, the best of that 2010...on and on and on it will go.

No wonder then that we have trouble leaving our pasts behind us, that we have trouble packing things away where they belong, that we pull things out and compare them to our now.

I'm trying to only care about the now. It's the only thing that really actually matters isn't it? It's the only thing that can be considered reality anyway.

I'm jealous of animals. They don't do this and it is one thing they've definitely got over us.