I think that the present is worth attention, one shouldn't sacrifice it to future conceptions of, of this future or that future.
Tom StoppardWhen you stir your rice pudding, Septimus, the spoonful of jam spreads itself round making red trails like the picture of a meteor in my astronomical atlas. But if you stir backwards, the jam will not come together again. Indeed, the pudding does not notice and continues to turn pink just as before. Do you think this is odd?
Tom Stoppard