According To Pangloss's 'All Possible Worlds'

We all have two choices in life: to live life joyfully or despondently. The choices we make define our future, which

that the world is the best of all possible worlds in which all is well and all is for

“For a lot of people, life is a series of day by day decisions, living each day trying to do the best we can, and where we end up in life is not always where we would have predicted when we were

Said quote can also be used in real life, as to where nothing, if anything at all, is certain. Places, people, objects, art, and even history are always changing in the seemingly smallest way. We, as the human race, are always discovering new things of the past, building from fresh ideas, creating new art to admire, personalities, and ways of belief are rapidly changing. It is crucial to stop and observe often to make certain that your life is going in the right direction, and only you have the power to control your own

It's all in the grand scheme of things, just about perspective in all actuality, no one really knows the future but society views everything like we do know what's going to happen, and we work towards completing goals, or achieving things that we set out to do but in all actuality none of it is going to happen as we planed. Say for instance you set out a goal to make a million dollars by the end of 2016, and you have your plan and everything you know what you're going to do , and you do it and by 2016 you have everything you set out to get, but that's it. During the process of getting to your planned out goal you were dead. You were as probably less human than a wooden table, the reason for that is called target fascination. When you wish for things to happen you, and you don't really know who is or, if it is even you who had the original idea to become rich, you don't really know because your mind is combined with other people's perspective and other peoples thoughts so much to the point where you don't even have your own conceptual idea

“I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.” - Thomas Jefferson.

“Your life will be no better than the plans you make and the action you take. You are the architect and builder of your own life, fortune, destiny.” This thought was made by Alfred A. Montapret. He is trying to interpret that you are the one that controls your life so, build it how you want it to be. Though person can be miserable, but in the end their life will be just how they planned. Life does not always stay the way you plan, stuff gets in the way and it will become confusing, but it will work itself out. With this in mind, society wants the best for people, so their life will be just how they planned it to be. Society will force the Native Americans to do things they want to, but it just wants them to be able to communicate with different

The quote “The supreme value is not the future but the present. The future is a deceitful time that always say to us ‘Not yet,’ and thus defines us. The future is not the time of love: what man truly wants he wants now. Whoever builds a house for future happiness is building a prison for the present,” talks a lot about life and time. One of the twelve components of Transcendentalism is life/time. People who accept Transcendentalism believe that emphasis should be placed on the here and now. This quote talks about how how the future is dishonest and misleads others. People may do something to change the future, but the future is untrustworthy and things can change over time. The people who follow Transcendentalism only worry about the present

Peter Drucker, an American Businessman once said, “The best way to predict the future is to create it”.

Since our present shapes our future, then why do we bother to stress about our future when it is so unpredictable? Our purpose in life should be to live in the moment, and our purpose in life should be to work for ourselves and only for ourselves at that moment. We get carried away with materialistic stuff and forget to live our life in the present and forget to seize the day. We should focus on making the moment about ourselves since it will remain with us forever. This idea of living in the moment is well expressed in Carpe Diem, seizing the day. In the poem “A Late Aubade” Richard Wilbur talks about his view on Crape Diem similar to the view of Robert Herrick in his poem “To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time.

Imagine this, a ball is slowly rolling off of a table. You know that if you do not catch it, it will hit the floor. But, what if it could float, instead? Then, you may try and change its future by catching it but ultimately, it is going to float. When you know the outcome to a situation, you may try and change it, but you cannot change the future.

I think what Churchill is trying to say is that have control about what will happen in our future. We have self-control of the choices we make daily whether if it is small, big, and even our emotions. This quote is important because people always come up with excuses about something they do not do or something they do. We should not should not have to worry about doing something wrong because it is the choice you made and you have to learn from it, do not let the mistake control what other actions you do. You are in control of what path you will take in your future, nothing or nobody else is. For example,

As Emerson perceived the world, “Man postpones or remembers; he does not live in the present, but with reverted eye laments the past, or, heedless of the riches that surround him, stands on tiptoes to foresee the future. He cannot be happy and strong until he too lives with nature in the present, above time” (“Self-Reliance” 833-834). Even if a man finds himself with both self-trust and originality, he may never realize his true potential if he is preoccupied with past events or future fortunes. Emerson finds these obsessions to be utterly useless: “Discontent is the want of self-reliance; it is the infirmity of will. Regret calamities, if you can thereby help the sufferer; if not, attend to your own work, and already the evil begins to be repaired” (838). In contemporary society, a willingness to “live in the moment” is highly regarded, especially among youth, yet this acceptance seems to wane with age. Nevertheless, excessive anxiousness and nostalgia are a waste of the potential that can be realized when the truths of the present are

Daniel Kahneman’s thesis, “As a result, we fail to comprehend and take complexity into account in assessing the past and present events, and our understanding of the world consists of small, not necessarily representative sets of observations. One implication of this bias is that we tend to be overconfident in our judgments, our ‘rational’ minds generally do not account for the role of chance in events and thus falsely assume that future events will mirror past ones”, can be implicated in many people’s lives, especially mine. Overconfidence refers to a biased way of someone looking at a situation. When someone is overconfident, “they misjudge their value, opinion, beliefs or abilities and you have more confidence than you should give the objective parameters of the situation” (Rolf Dobelli, 2013). In my opinion we see overconfidence on a regular basis with things you wouldn’t even guess such as, those that think their sense of direction is much better than it actually is, someone who thinks they are invaluable to their employer when almost anyone could actually do his job, and a person who thinks his spouse or partner will never ever leave because he or she loves him too much. Those are some examples of overconfidence that one may come across in their lifetime. For myself, I’ve been caught being overconfident and it ended up backfiring on me. Junior year of high school was a year that I had many occurrences of overconfidence, one in particular that impacted my life the most

You and I will certainly agree on this. There are always some people who live for, and always leave everything for tomorrow. The way I like to simply illustrate this is by saying, “if every morning we wake up thinking in do or make something only tomorrow, we will end up never doing or making it.”