Theo-rem

The question is, where are you going.

Yes, the present is all that exists and will exist forever and ever, amen. And no, you can't go in any direction, because you are always at the center of what you are.

I'd put it like this:

You have a continuous function with an x coordinate across a dimension of time, the y coordinate being a subjective measure of personal well-being.

If you place yourself at a given point in time, your body remembers how it felt then, according to the balanced intensity of the experience. The force you put into rejecting that moment pulls the curve down, while the enjoyment of your presence lifts it up.

The point is that, if you set a limit at a zero-dimensional point and forget the rest of the curve, you see that a slope still fits inside that infinitesimal instant. What some call velocity, the momentum of how much the intensity is rising or falling. And if the velocity is still continuous, you can derive its acceleration, and the acceleration's, recursively, until you observe a predictable approximation of the farthest possible goal.

So, in this infinitesimal present, all the infinite possibilities of life fit.

Heading for the place you want to be has nothing to do with mentally planning your life. It's about, from the center of what you are, taking on the strength, the intention and the total, blind faith of already being there. Timeless, now.

And from that trust and self-worth, where every temporal function springs from, yes, mentally plan your life.

Every point on the continuous curve has a result. That is, you have always lived heading somewhere. Maybe you never saw where. Maybe you let yourself be dragged along by the Gaussian bell curve that leads indirectly but inevitably toward the end.

Do you know, at this moment, where you are going?