Events in the past few years (from global to personal) have me thinking that the only way the aggravations of life on planet earth (from runaway climate change to lost credit cards) are ever worth it is if you have a robust (even if tiny) investment in a future you want to get to
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Your future is only as real as the little things you plant in it to look forward to, creating a gentle tug of anticipation to keep your inner clock ticking. If all you do everyday is deal with exhausting crap of daily life and responsible long-term crap, life is not worth it.
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"Living in the moment" is, neurologically speaking, bullshit. We're not creatures of the transient present. We have dopamine-driven striatum allowing us to live in stories rather than impressionistic scenes. That's a feature, not a bug. One meant to be used.
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I think what you are describing is not really an "investment" but a Self that identifies with a future version of itself. People in the west believe that Me+10yrs=Me (albeit a slightly weaker version). As a culture what we can do is expand that Self to identify with other things
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Not really. Aspirational self orientation has a narcissistic component that's missing in what I'm talking about. This is simply continued existence. And I don't know that there is anything particularly western about this. I see no difference between India and the US at least
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