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- What is painting?
- How to develop patience and calmly sit in pairs, without thinking about time?
- How to protect yourself from deep feelings after a very painful breakup (if you don't want to fall in love anymore, but you understand that the brain decides this)?
- The father insults the mother and children, raises his hand against his wife. But the wife forgives everything and stays. Why?
- What is the most incredible, in your opinion, fact?
We are so constructed that we live mostly either in the past or in the future. We live on memories or make plans in advance. All this prevents us from living in the present. Although life is an eternal present, while the past and future do not exist. Here is such a paradox. Lennon simply repeated the banal truth: Carpe diem! Enjoy the moment! Live here and now. But, perhaps, only those sentenced to death or terminally ill people, or, probably, children, can live like this.