If You Are Like Most

The Fact That We Often Judge The Pleasure Of An Experience By Its Ending Can Cause Us To Make Some Curious Choices.

No One Likes To Be Criticized, Of Course, But If The Things We Successfully Strive For Do Not Make Our Future Selves Happy, Or If The Things We Unsuccessfully Avoid Do, Then It Seems Reasonable (if Somewhat Ungracious) For Them To Cast A Disparaging Glance Backward And Wonder What The Hell We Were Thinking.

The Human Brain Is The Only Object In The Known Universe That Can Predict Its Own Future And Tell Its On Fortune. The Fact That We Can Make Disastrous Decisions Even As We Foresee Their Consequences Is The Great, Unsolved Mystery Of Human Behavior. When You Hold Your Fate In Your Hands, Why Would You Ever Make A Fist?

Human Beings Are Works In Progress That Mistakenly Think They're Finished.

We Treat Our Future Selves As Though They Were Our Children, Spending Most Of The Hours Of Most Of Our Days Constructing Tomorrows That We Hope Will Make Them Happy