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>"If one believes in Time then one has no possibility of sudden change, there is a constant expectation that “in time” everything will come all right. If one is not capable of solving a conflict one expects that “in time” the conflicts will solve themselves, without one having to risk a decision. You find that very often, be specially in believing in Time as far as one’s own achievements are concerned. People comfort themselves, not only because they do not really do something but also for not making any preparation for what they have to do, because for such things there is plenty of time and therefore there is no need to hurry. Such a mechanism is illustrated by the case of a very gifted writer who wanted to write a book which he thought would be the most important book in world literature, but he did not do more than have a few ideas as to what he would write and enjoy in fantasy what the effect of his book would be and tell his friends that he had not nearly finished it. In reality he had not even written a single line, not a single word; though according to him, he had already worked for seven years on it. The older such people get, the more they cling onto the illusion that one day they will do it. In certain people the reaching of a certain age, generally at the beginning of their forties, brings a sobering effect so that they begin to use their own forces, or there is a neurotic breakdown which is based upon the fact that one cannot live if one does not have that comforting time illusion."
>Erich Fromm, The Feeling of Being Incapable of Doing Anything
>Erich Fromm, The Feeling of Being Incapable of Doing Anything