We want a whole race perpetually in pursuit of the rainbows end, never honest, nor kind, nor happy now, but always using as mere fuel wherewith to heap the altar of the future every real gift which is offered them in the Present. Uncle Screwtapes diabolical counsel to his nephew Wormwood in C. S. Lewis The Screwtape Letters is a reminder that most of us live more in the future than in the present. Somehow we think that the days ahead will make up for what we perceive to be our present lack. We think, When I get this or when that happens, then Ill be happy, but this is an exercise in self-deception that overlooks the fact that even when we get what we want, it never delivers what it promised.
Posted on: Mon, 09 Jun 2014 10:00:44 +0000
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