If you ask, you will be right. Of course, we all live in the present, at least physically. But emotionally - not always. The present is robbed from us by our worries about the future or the past. When, instead of acting, we are in thoughts like: But if I then... And when I will... And what will happen if... We emotionally leave the present and get stuck in something that cannot be changed, or in something that doesn't exist yet. Sometimes a person goes so far into the past that reality bifurcates, he seems to exist in two parallels - one present and the other, which would be “if...” And life slows down, a person stops developing, he seems to freeze in the past. This situation is accompanied by a feeling of helplessness, because it is impossible to change the past. Or another option: a person lives in thoughts and dreams about the future, in his head he is already rich, or happy, or the president of the whole world. At the same time, nothing changes in his reality, he is not ready to work here because he does not know how, or is afraid, or does not want to. He does not go towards his goal in the present, he already lives in it in the future. And the most anxiety-generating way is to live in fear of “What will happen if”: “What will happen if I make a mistake,” “What will happen if it doesn’t work out,” etc. This anxiety practically paralyzes a person, preventing him from moving, planning and acting. To understand why this prevents you from acting in the present, imagine a chair that you want to sit on or that you want to fix. Now move 2 meters forward or back from him and try to do something with him. It turns out? This is how it is in life - when we are not in the moment, we cannot do anything with it. We can live and really change something only in the here and now. The past is experience, it already exists and cannot be changed. We can only accept it and ourselves in it and take from it to the maximum everything that we have learned. Draw conclusions about how we want or don’t want to live. The future does not yet exist, and living in it is like living in a soap bubble or a castle in the air. When the present catches up with him and breaks him, it will hurt to fall. We can create the future only by being in the present. As for anxiety about the future, it is important to answer the question: “Can I do something now to turn in the direction that is most convenient for me?” If yes, then we do it; if not, then we try not to waste time and energy on it, but do what we can in the here and now. And we will deal with the disturbing, but beyond our control, future when it becomes real or subject to change.