# Stealing from the Present

**Published by:** [jer979](https://paragraph.com/@jer979-2/)
**Published on:** 2025-03-13
**URL:** https://paragraph.com/@jer979-2/stealing-from-the-present

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Letting go of past regrets and emotions is a skill that can be developed. One practice is to find something that you think is sentimental, look at it, savor it, and then recycle it/throw it away. Since life is a big dress rehearsal for the ultimate letting go, this muscle can be developed. But the other side of the present is the future. Instead of focusing on the now, there’s a lot of mind energy that is devoted to the future. Some is good. I mean, I’m a big believer in preparation. But that balance of over-preparing, bordering on obsessing about the future. It just steals from the NOW, the present. Which, ironically, leads to regret. Cue cycle again. But perhaps that’s the practice.

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