A leather jacket,” Kami said as he shrugged into it. “Aren’t you trying a little too hard to play into certain bad boy clichés?” “Nah”, said Jared. “You’re thinking of black leather. Black leather’s for bad boys. It’s all in the color. You wouldn’t think I was a bad boy if I was wearing a pink leather jacket. ” “That’s true,” Kami said. “What I would think of you, I do not know. So what does brown leather mean, then?” “I’m going for manly,” Jared said. “Maybe a little rugged. ” “It’s bits of dead cow; don’t ask it to perform miracles.
Paulo Coelho
We human beings have enormous difficulty in focusing on the present; we always thinking about what we did, about how we could have done it better. . . . or else we think about the future, about what we're going to do. . . . But at this precise moment, you also realize that you can change your future by bringing the past into the present. Past and future only exist in our mind. The present moment, though, is outside of time, it's Eternity. . . . It isn't what you did in the past the will affect the present. It's what you do in the present that will redeem the past and thereby change the future.
