There are three different kinds of people, I believe, and each view the world and their experiences through a radically different lens. There are people that live in the past, people that live in the moment, and people that live in the future.

Most of us have one period of time that we favor thinking about. It is, in my opinion, incredibly rare to find someone that thinks of the past, the present, and future equally. Instead, a large number of people tend to either get stuck in the past, consumed by the thought of the future, and a much smaller number live for the here and now.

It seems so self-explanatory as to why we shouldn't put too much weight into the past or the future because the right now is all we really have, but for some reason, so many people (myself, most definitely included) still do it. There's something so comforting, thinking about the past and how things played out because you can predict how everything occurs.

You've lived it, after all.

There are no curve balls.

And there's something so enticing about spending a considerable amount of time thinking about the future too, because it is the exact opposite of the past. It is entirely open for interpretation.

There is nothing that is impossible.

With those two ideas taken into account, it is easy to see why a significantly fewer number of people are enchanted by the idea of the present. I think that, so many times, people don't realize how precious the current moment is because we're always either thinking about what we had and what we can't get back, or about what we hope we have in the future. It has becoming alarmingly difficult to simply be present, to just live in the moment, to just embrace the life that is in front of you right now.

Make your most conscious effort to do precisely that in 2018, however. Decide that you will view the present as even more important than the past or the future. It is integral that we as people begin to do this, because the right now is all that truly matters. The past is of no bearing, and we'll watch the future play out when we get there. But for right now, let's just see where the present takes us.