Facebook now has a feature that gives you a daily flashback of pictures you posted in the past on the very same day of the year. As I was writing this blog I took a picture from the hotel room's writing desk at Tam Coc Vietnam, a rustic countryside surrounded by limestone hills. This place, this spot could well have been Somerset Maugham's chosen retreat to write his novel. I can imagine him reclining on the ratan chair as words flowed through his mind.
A year or many from now on this very day, Facebook will probably flash this very picture to jolt my memory, probably even after I am dead. Beyond some brief flashback or reminiscence, this very moment has absolutely no purpose for me in those future moments; and when I am dead and gone what use has this moment left for the 'once upon a time' me.
Thus this moment has to be fully lived with full presence.
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