Live it Forward and Review it Backward
I am reading Hitch-22: A Memoir by Christopher Hitchens and using a quote from Kierkegaard, Hitchens eloquently captures in words something I think all of us have experienced, the difficulty of appreciating what you have or are experiencing at that moment. Teaching us to appreciate the present is also the primary goal of Tolle’s book, The Power of Now. Here is the passage from Hitch-22.
‘But this is very much like the rest of life, where, as Kierkegaard so shrewdly observes, one is condemned to live it forward and review it backward. If you are going to sleep with Thatcher’s future ministers and toy with a future president’s lesbian girlfriend, in other words, you will not be able to savor it fully at the time and will have to content yourself with recollecting it in some kind of tranquility.’
