Letters from a Stoic by Senecaby Parker on TwosHope and fear both project our thoughts far ahead of us instead of adapting ourselves to the presentWild animals run from the dangers they actually see, and once they have escaped them worry no more. We however are tormented alike by what is past and what is to come. A number of our blessings do us harm, for memory brings back the agony of fear while foresight brings it on prematurely. No one confines his unhappiness to the present.