Don't imagine your whole life at once

Trying to carry the weight of your entire future will crush your present. Take life one moment at a time because clarity comes with each step, not from seeing the whole path.

Living in present gives you clarity and focus on the problem and you can clearly focus and grow, but instead when you have a lot of things in your mind like thinking about future will not only ruin your present but will make your future worse even if you are imagining it to be good and all as expected.

Life is not linear. It slips from your hands so easily that you won’t even realize how did it happen. You will end up in situations that you never chose for yourself yet there you are, having to deal with it. You will give your 1000% in something yet sometimes, it won’t work out. Thinking your whole life at once doesn't makes any sense you'll face ups and downs in your life sooner or later.

If there is a pain in the future let it be in the future by imagining and thinking about that in present, you are just ruining your present and future. In future you will have to face that pain but by imagining about that in present will kill your present too. whereas you could live in your present happily.

However what you are doing in the present will make your future not by imagining or thinking of it will.

There is a famous quote says:-

Do not disturb yourself by imagining your whole life at once. - Marcus Aurelius