I tend to look ahead a lot in life... I dwell on what could be in the future when I should booking at what is in the present. I have no idea why I do this. Maybe it's because I have an idea of what I think will be the best part of my life here on this Earth, and what's not the best part; the future being the better part of my life and the present being not so. Does that make me perpetually unsatisfied then? Why should I be unsatisfied when every chapter I turn, and every block I lay down, is a step toward this ultimate moment; this ultimate goal. Why would I want to skip the present moments, as I so often desire, to get to the ones ahead? Every one of those moments help define what my future will be... They are all included in the devine blueprints that my Creator has so carefully planned out for me... So why, in my right mind, would I desire to move past them at lightening speed? I should have ultimate happiness in these moments because my Father has created them for me, before my life was every a fleeting thought in the minds of my parents. Though, I know that it is not bad for me to grieve and feel sadness in times of hardship and tragedy... Still, as a child of my Heavenly Father, I should be looking upward toward the heart of His plan, searching for the strength to accept this beat in the blueprint He has made for my life.

I can still be excited for my future while relishing and rejoicing in the present, so long as I am not so overcome with desire for my future that I dismiss the present.