The Future: The Past, Present And The Future

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The past, the present and the future. Can they exists at the same time? Today I was driving one of my best friends to the airport, she stayed for one week in Miami; while I was crying saying goodbye at the airport, I remembered the good time we had in the last week and how fast it passed. Now we are in the present, saying goodbye. This is how we start seeing we don 't have three separated times. In our minds time is always mixed with: past, present and future. Like professor Phillip Zimbardo said on the psychology of time video: we can be oriented at the time we choose, some people tend to worry excessively about the future and all they do is work for it; some can be past oriented either in negative or positive ways, they think too much about the past and focus on reviving memories and some are present hedonistic of fatalist, they just think about living the present, the past and the future doesn 't exist for them. Time orientation depends on the personality and life conditions of the person.
The past is the time in the one we store all types of experiences and moments; it only exists in our memory. There are two types of past oriented people: the ones who focus on the negative memories and the ones who focus on the positive ones. The negative past oriented people are the ones who doesn 't permit …show more content…

Future oriented people only lives for the future, they work for it and worry about what will happen next all the time. Is great that people work for their future, but it becomes worrying when they stop living because of that; because there will come one day that they will look themselves in the mirror and realize they got older and didn 't enjoy life because they only focused on working for the

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