Why is that we live so much in the future? But regret so much of the past?

Daily writing prompt

What are you most excited about for the future?

While it’s true that there is always something to look forward to in the future. The busy work season, future income, travel adventures, retirement, a new love/friend/confidant…

But after losing my Chloe, my pup, my best friend, the love of my life… And watching multiple people close to me go through really tough health complications… they are alive and we are lucky, but sometimes they aren’t or won’t be…
After helping at countless funerals of people about my age or younger… After watching the generations before us be so angry and unfulfilled …
Is the question of looking to the future the right one to be asking? Why do we put off the joys of today, to have a better future? When in reality, that future may never come.

It’s true I do work at a funeral home helping people preplan their services and prepay for them, and I help people navigate insurances like life insurance and health insurance (the one product line that exists for the what ifs when the what ifs aren’t joyous). But reflecting back; I’ve never seen the world through the same lens as others.

While I’m excited for the future, in the future I’m older, the new puppy isn’t a puppy, look far enough out and she could pass over the rainbow bridge too. In the future I’ll have love and lost, and lived this life from the present moment. I’ll have different woes and different joys. It’s all well and good, but I hope to live my life taking in the pleasure of watching the trees shimmer in the wind, and knowing that the time I spent with the people and animals I treasure meant something when I’m gone. And that’s one of the reasons you’ll always find us on a cruise ship, even though, for now, we are the youngest paying clientele on board.