The Past, the Present & the Future

Recently, I found myself tossing and turning until 4 a.m., unable to make sense of how I was feeling. There it was: a new facet of the human experience unlocked. After reflecting on the journey of my thoughts, I realized I was experiencing premature nostalgia — a kind of emotional response based in the future & triggered by being hyper-present in moments I would normally hold myself back from.

It reminded me of an exercise I once did back in university. We were asked to illustrate how much we live in the past, the present, and the future. I used to live explicitly in the past, & I find it intriguing that, in just two years, this part of my identity — this tendency to dwell in what was — had completely shifted without me even noticing. I couldn’t tell you the reason, or reasons, behind this change. But the realization came as a sweet and quiet thought.

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