topic: [[Living]] created: 2025-04-07 *If am always living between yesterday and tomorrow, I'm living a provisional life.* Yesterday, during my **Weekly Review**, I was trying to figure out when to reply to an email to schedule a meeting with Bob P. I spent longer deciding when to do it, than it took to actually do it. ##### what is it? An idea from Marie Louise von Franz, described in [[Meditations for Mortals]], page 123, the [[provisional life]] describes a sense of never getting to live your life because you are always working towards the future. ##### why does it matter? It is an orientation to the future that diminishes the value of your current self, in order to make things better for [[Future Lon]]. ##### This reminds me of [[provisional identity]], and the uncomfortable state of not yet becoming. It is possible to be in the state of not yet living, of always future planning. ##### What would the opposite argument be? Fuck tomorrow, today is the only thing we have. No planning, nothing to constrain us, hold us back, or keep us from pursuing our passions _right now!_ tags: #note/idea | #on/living | #on/planning ##### Sources: Burkeman, O. (2024). _[[Meditations for mortals]]: Four weeks to embrace your limitations and make time for what counts_ (First american). Farrar, Straus and Giroux.