Are you more of a present or future type of person?

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I know an aspie who says "I never expect anything". Can anyone relate?

I am more of a future type of person in that I usually worry about what is going to happen and usually forget to live in the present.

Yeah I spend a lot of time living in the future, often daydreaming about how it's going to be an improvement on the present But I also have an aspie friend who just lives very much day-to-day and hates to have to commit to a particular course of action, so I guess maybe both traits are there.

I tend to live more in the present, than in the future. I don't like to look too far ahead.

I'm a future type of person. It has to do with your personality type. If your Myers-Briggs personality type states that you're Intuitive rather than Sensing, then you tend to think about the future more than about the present and the past.

I am extremely future orientated, unfortunately.

I think I'm more of a past type person to be honest... Always remembering things.

I like living in the present because that's all we really have, but I also like to make strides always toward creating a better, more successful future, as well. But I'm quite contented with the now.

I'm almost totally in the present. Sometimes I think that's rather zen-like, and honestly, it's nice to not be a worrier. But I think the main reason I don't think about the future in any big way is that my brain just can't work like that. I don't know enough about the future to imagine it. Sometimes I try to think about my kid's future, but I don't know how to think in a planning, organizing kind of way. Years ago, I got that book, "What Color is Your Parachute?", and it seemed like it ought to be useful if you knew what you wanted and how the world worked, but I wasn't able to do the exercises or think in the way that was required.

I know that right now I want to eat some candy.

Definitely future.

Present. I figured that any achievements that I've made so far were due to me working on the present (then) and not worrying so much about the future.

I can relate to both you and your friend. I never expect anything. I hope for things, and I work to get things, but I can't predict the future, so I have no expectations. I'll try to work out the most likely outcome of things, but I never expect things with any certainty.

On the other hand, I also worry a lot about what's going to happen. This is partly because I cannot function spontaneously: I need a good deal of planning of my actions and speech to be able to act and speech. Another reason is anxiety due to not being able to predict things and the awareness that the only thing I control is my own actions. The rest is just generalised anxiety and the fear of my capabilities not being equal to my ambitions.

Both past and future.
I am always wondering, and since the present is happening - I am experiencing the present - I don't wonder about it.

I love looking into the past, remembering things and wondering what the past wouldve been like, and always living in past memories...
And I because of my interest in medieval European history, I am always living in... that era... like looking at how things would be if we lived in that time.

And I also wonder if the past and future collided, like Star Wars, what it'd be like.
But then I'm more negative about the future, and I worry rather than wonder.
I worry that I might fail at my life goals, I worry I might die early or friends or family might die early, I worry about the day my friends or family will die and I think about how life is short and I may not be able to see the future, or I worry I may wish to die than see and live the future because the future may be chaos, and the future is unknown, and I always fear the unknown.
So while I do wonder about the future, it's more of a wonder than I do not enjoy thinking about.

Anyone who knows me will tell you that I live in dreams of the future, yet work in the present to make them come true. In two and a half years I will make my first £1,000,000. People laugh at that, but see the quote on my signature for my response.

I live for the present. True, it is cool that if someone says 'wait until tomorrow so that you can earn 10 million bucks without any effort'. But if such dreams do not realize in real life, I shall work for the present.

What's stopping you from making those dreams happen in real life? What's stopping you from going out and starting a business right now? Nothing. If you dismiss any hope of becoming rich, it's your own fault when it dosen't happen.

I agree, but I know I ain't the person who is entrepreneurial enough to set up a million-dollar business. You may be. I shan't discourage anybody but yeah, I guess I may have to accept the unpleasant reality of things. Others need not...