P.J Register

Present v Future Let me tell you the kind of person I am before we embark on this prospective psychologically and debatably daunting article that you are reading. My friend says she is a realist. She believes in what she experiences at the moment than the unseen tomorrow. This came after she saw that I wasn’t like her or I lived in the moment but a strong inclination towards the unseen tomorrow. She doesn’t ascribe to that class of people who are cynic or believe in goodies that come with time. Optimism and pessimism alike, are futuristic only separated by which side of hope the person has-‘full’ or ‘less’. In our contemporary discussions, we are disjointed whenever the topic hits present and future. Typical of her mantra ‘today, now, this moment’ and typical me a hard liner for beyond ‘today, now, this moment’. She is a centurion of “YOLO” army of the 21 st century and the old dogs will tell you she is an ardent of the 20 th century’s “vunja mifupa kama bado meno ...