“I wish there was a way to know you’re in the good old days before you’ve actually left them” -Andy Bernard

"Value" comes from reflection, and reflection takes time. A moment is much too brief for us to attribute value to it while simultaneously experiencing it in all its phenomenal richness/complexity. "Living in the present" means not letting that phenomenal richness/complexity slip away from our experience of Being in order to retroactively assign value (or lack thereof) to any one moment in time. Doing so causes us to lose the emergent moment (where the value of life is said, by some, to truly reside). That's at least one way to look at it, more or less.

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Ive had a time or two where i realized i was having an all-timer moment and it made the joy of experiencing moment even profound. And when i look back on it, yep, those moments are right on up there some of the best.

“Now my empty cup tastes as sweet as the punch”-The Association.

I don't think so. Sometimes when I'm having a really good moment I stop for a second and think "damn y'know this is pretty nice"

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It messes up the moment for me when I realize "Man, this special moment is going to end very soon" Pretty much every time. I'm one of those people who are afraid of being happy because I know what comes after