Could any one let me know their thoughts on how to reconcile the idea that we should live our lives in full awareness of the possibility that each moment could be our last, with the business making plans for the future?
As an example, so far in my life I've made no financial provision for my future, and am wondering if maybe I should set up some kind of pension.
Many people do this, but why, if our expectations about the future are so likely to be misguided?
How about revising the idea of living our lives in full awareness that each moment could be our last, which is a very life-centric notion that itself distorts the purity of any concept of living our lives in "full awareness," with an awareness that part of our experience inevitably includes the experience of human society.
We live in constructed realities, some of which are quite powerful and persistent. Preparing for the future doesn't guarantee a future, nor does it guarantee that any underlying assumptions about the persistence of particular powerful realities will actually persist. Preparing for the future is thus a present experience, an expression of an inner attribute that recognizes external socially constructed but persistent illusions of reality.
Deciding to take present action to "prepare" for an unknowable future can be a respectful kindness to our experience of constructed realities and, I believe, can be entirely consistent with maintaining an active awareness of the unknowable future - as long as we don't start pretending that it's more than it is by confusing our plans with reality.
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