I Present The Present

It is a promise we make to ourselves when we are young that we will achieve something.
Although some of us feel forced to go to school and to sit tests, we still internally think about what our future should hold (even if this is a variation of superhero).
The way society deems it, our present isn't as important as our future.
Children are the future, you know.
Old people are the past.
But adults, those things we think about being when we are young and dream of when we are old, those things that feature as our 'settled selves', they are the present - and who needs that?

What does it matter what we do now, as long as we are better people later on?

Yes, the sarcasm is reeking. But even with this knowledge, it cannot be helped that I am sitting in a coma and waiting to be woken.

Our contradictory nature is sometimes enough to ponder and keep us going.