Looking back can be self-perpetuating. Regrets and negative experience for someone who is anxious and depressed inhibit forward looking and abstract future planning. And in that situation the present can look pretty hopeless as well, since it feels like the sum of your decisions up to that point.
Future hopes and ambitions are definitely healthier and usually more beneficial.

Buffet and Junia Bretas have both been quoted as actually saying this.

Tough question. I like to think for the future, but living in the present. I don't like to think about the past, is gone. I walk thorough the forest, going forward not backwards... NEVER go back. Going back is sad and drags you down. Exploring new places, new adventures, new people, new life is what keeps you going forward and enjoy your life.

I usually think how I could make my present actions to secure my future and have a more easy life comparing with the present. Of course we will never know what will bring the future. Maybe tomorrow a big rock will fall over me and all my plans for the future are gone, puff, for nothing.

The most important thing in my life is: STOP WORRYING for the future, you cannot control it. Live your life as would be your last day on this planet. STOP living in fear. FEAR is a weapon of control, don't let it into your life, into your head, into your heart.

I just clicked in the wrong answer by mistake lol That apart, I think sometimes depression/anxiety hits me because everyone around me does not want to understand the power of Bitcoin, and looking at me as i was crazy. It really is a hard task to get people interested about Bitcoin and the Blockchain. It is kinda depressing to see how loved ones are working so hard to earn Fiat, not understanding how that shyt is loosing value and why. So i feel happy coming over to SN because this is the place where I can relate to people with the same mindset, and learn from them, everyday bit by bit (ha did you see what it did there? lol) That said, I think being at peace with oneself doesn't necessarily relates to (or at least not always) Lao Tzus' philosophy of living in the future past or present, but being surrounded by like-minded individuals as a whole, regardless of one's passions and personal outcomes Past-What's done is done - did what I thought it was right at the time and that cannot be changed Present - I'm confident on the things I am doing and enjoy them as I go Future - the future is bright, specially if you think about Bitcoin

I spend most of my conscious time thinking about the future.

I compulsively think about the past searching and reliving cringe with more weight given to recent cringe.

When you have a little kid, there's plenty of present to occupy yourself with. I'm not sure that's the same as being at peace though.

Roman Empire was not an option. Had to select past as a poor substitute.

Mainly the future, but I think I have a good mix going on

I'm anxious about the future and I'm stacking my full time into Bitcoin

One of things I love about going down the Bitcoin rabbit hole is how much I've learned about history. I never really liked history in school but now I think it's one of the most important subjects.

To be honest most of my time is spent thinking about past and especially future. Although I feel fulfilled in the present moment. Life is now. Enjoy it. You never know what happen 10 minutes later. It is only in your mind. Plan accordingly but do not let your mind to take away your present.

I only dwell on the future to a fault and my wife only dwells on the past to a fault. Together we navigate through life well.

As a decade+ avid poker player I am numb to results, they don't matter. This thinking has bled into my real life where I could care less about what has happened and only concern myself with current or future decisions.