The most overused phrase in my lifetime directed at me is “Don’t think so much about the future, focus more on the present”. There isn’t, however, any logic in “focusing on the present”. Action is always directed toward the future; it is essentially and necessarily always a planning and acting for a better future. Its aim is always to render future conditions more satisfactory than they would be without the interference of action. The uneasiness that impels a man to act is caused by a dissatisfaction with expected future conditions as they would probably develop if nothing were done to alter them. In any case action can influence only the future, never the present that with every infinitesimal fraction of a second sinks down into the past. Man becomes conscious of time when he plans to convert a less satisfactory present state into a more satisfactory future state. The present is, from these aspects, nothing but an ideal boundary line separating the past from the future. I can understand the statement, being an over-analyzer, but it seems impossible to be anything but a tad over-zealous about the future. Those who forget the past are doomed to repeat it and those who live in the present are stuck in the past. Worrying, however, never did anyone any good.