What is presentism?

Presentism is when people think only about today, and forget that things can change over time.

Imagine you have a jar full of your favorite candies. You count them every day before bedtime. One day, you see there are 10 candies left. You get excited and say, “I have the most candies ever!” But if you only think about today, you don’t notice that yesterday you had 20 candies, and tomorrow you might have 5.

That’s presentism: it’s like being so focused on right now that you don’t see how things used to be or how they might change in the future. It’s like wearing sunglasses that only let you see one part of a picture, and not the whole thing.

Sometimes people use presentism because it makes life simpler. If you only think about today, you don’t have to worry about what happens tomorrow or yesterday. But if you always think this way, you might miss out on big changes, like going from having a lot of candies to having none at all!