Take the time to smell the roses, poets tell us. When the past is full of regrets and the future evokes anxiety, it might seem plausible that the present alone offers happiness. Yet in this article I’d like to argue that contrary to much thinking on this topic, the present is not all there is to happiness – at least if by ‘present’ we mean the immediately present moment isolated from the past and future.
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