How do you see yourself in the future?

Today our English teacher told us to sit down, push everything away from you, make yourself comfortable and close your eyes. Afterward she started talking, softly. Her sound seemed far away as she told us many instructions as if she was guiding us through the future.....

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"Imagine yourself 10 years from today, or if that is too far, imagine yourself 5 years from today. What do you see yourself doing? Had you completed a dream that you had been dreaming from today? Do you feel satisfied? What will you do to celebrate this? Will you host a large party or will you be by yourself? Did you do this all the way by yourself? Or were there friends that had helped you on the way? Now fast forward until you are an old man. When you look back at all this how will you feel? Do you feel satisfied or do you have another dream? Now remember everything that you had just experienced and pull yourself back to this very room. The english classroom and slowly open your eyes, find a piece of paper and write everything you felt down."

Here is what I have written down:
I don’t know. I couldn’t see anything other than now as you talked. I only know that I am busy enough just to live in the present, I don’t have time to think as far as 1 or 2 years. The only image that had ever came to my mind was nothing but the present. I see myself in school talking to my friends, at home programming and messing around with the computers and that’s enough.

I don’t mind how dumb I think I am when I look back for I wouldn’t need to look back. All I need to do is care how will I live in the next few weeks? What will I eat tomorrow? What should I do tomorrow? There is a saying, Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery and today is a gift, that is why we call it present. Yesterday is history, you wont be able to go back and change it. Tomorrow is a mystery, you will not know what will happen, setting goals is useless if something suddenly happen and destroy your life. But Today is a gift, so lets use it as much as we can and use that gift.

The only people I can see is people of the present. Maybe its because I don’t want to think too much, it would be too heavy for me to carry. Just thinking about the present is enough. Instead of dreaming many many years, why not just live as full as you can in the present? Instead of trying to accomplish something great in the future why not just live a great life now? Instead of working so hard just to accomplish one thing in the future why not just enjoy right now? Perhaps I do have a dream, a dream to live as full as I can presently. I don’t care how I want to be in the future, I just care how I want to be right now.

Instead of dreaming how I will be in the next 10 years. I want to be how I want to be in the next few days.