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The Present (Paperback) - 『선물』원서
스펜서 존슨 지음 / doubleday / 2003년 1월
평점 : 
Whenever I do in and out of school works, I am not happy. While studying, a variety of thoughts make me sad. When I read some books, I find a girl who is anxious about her future. ‘Can I go to a university?’ ‘I study hard but I get bad grades. It’s unfair’. So I cannot concentrate on studying and be happy. What makes the present be the present is focusing on every moment in our life. When we dedicate to what is right in the present moment, we don’t need to think about bad things and our life can be happy.
In my opinion, most people regret their past. After I read this book, I found that regretting is one of the most unproductive things. I often angry with something that I have done and I could do nothing because of my anger. Regretting makes me in a bad mood only and it is time-consuming. However, looking back is not always bad in our life. We can learn something from the past, and we are able to develop from the past. “We cannot change the past but we can learn something valuable from it.”
If you want to make the future better than the present, you have to imagine your wonderful future and make a realistic plan. We used to worry about the future. This is because we know nothing about the future. However we do not need to worry about it. We can’t control the future, thus making a realistic plan is the possible way to prepare the future.
We have to make our purpose and a plan follows it. Because a plan can make our future better and a purpose can make our life valuable.