No one has brought me as much pain as my former self.

Can't say that about pleasure. Pleasure seems to be primarily brought by others. My former self only made me able to experience those pleasures.

When I am in pain, I often think 'Fuck you, former self. How could you have let it come to this?'.

And then I realize that if I am the former self for my future self. I ask myself, what I can do now to provide a better place for my future self. How to make my future self to be thankful, instead of hateful for its former self?

Now is this in not meant as abstract concept. It means literaly this minute. Even if its just scheduling and appointment or making a note to schedule an appointment.

The only possibility to do stuff is in the now, and action will lead to further action.

The past and the future are just intellectual concepts. Ghosts in our heads. Nothing of this is real. There is only now. Only now gives me the possibility to do and experience things.

We humans have the ability to think strategically about the now and therefore create a chain of progressing nows.

Yet I sometimes think hateful about my former self, which was just a passed now.

Because I did not use it - did not think about me - my future self.

I think retrieving this concept from the depths of your memory and realizing the power of now - more so the impotency of past and future, enables you to think strategically, about your future self.

And I thinks thats what we as humans want: Creating a better future for ourselves.

The divided self

No one has brought me as much pain as my former self. Can't say that about pleasure. Pleas

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