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Emerson 2022-09-11 05:30:17

Anxiety in life is partly due to regret of the past and partly due to fear of the future. Living in the moment is more important than anything else.

Brad believes that the world should revolve around him, instead of admitting that he is just a passer-by in the world.

But when there are fewer and fewer possibilities in the future and more and more "mistakes" in the past accumulate, this feeling of powerlessness can really make a person overwhelmed and destroyed.

In fact, is living in the moment another kind of self-comfort? Don't love the past, don't welcome the future, it's wisdom, and it's also some self-persuasion. Living in the moment is just another form of drifting when life understands that most things are not in your hands.

But, isn't it the real life to go with the flow?

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  • Brad Sloan: [narrating] Her friend, Maya was equally captivating, equally compelling. I suddenly felt a deep grief... for all the women I would never love and all the lives I would never live. I imaging running away with them both and starting again and what that might look like.

  • Troy Sloan: When we were walking around today and you embarrassing me, I kept thinking, like, you know, if I go to this school, everybody here's gonna remember this and I'm never gonna live this down. But... you know, they're not gonna remember. Because, everybody's just thinking about themselves. You know? Nobody cares. Like, the only person that's thinking about you, is me, so... the only person's opinion that you should really care about is mine.

    Brad Sloan: Yeah. What's your opinion?

    Troy Sloan: Well, I love you.

    Brad Sloan: Thank you.