We are Magic Time Travellers!

Stop living a future that hasn’t happened yet.

How to use that thing between my ears better.

“The future is just a construct that lives between your ears that you create with language.” — Peter Crone

This is one of those sentences that seems like it’s blatantly obvious. Of course, none of us have crystal balls that we can look into and see what will happen in the future! So we have to make guesses as to what will happen and we guess using words.

But when you think about it, when you really think about it, the implications of this are mind-blowing.

Until we actually live the future (which by the way will instantly become the present), we create it.

Just as a thought about cake leads to feeling a craving for cake, a negative thought about the future leads to feeling anxiety or fear about it.

Thus it is possible to take something that does not exist and yet experience it in your mind and body as if it were happening now.

Let me rephrase this for you. We are magic time travellers. We are goddamn magic time travellers with the ability to travel to literally anywhere! So please tell me why do we choose to visit crappy destinations over and over again?

Of course, we are constrained by the laws of the real world, and destinations that are…