Us Northern American know that tomorrow is not promised but it does not keep us from putting things off until the future. We say ‘what we cannot do today we can do tomorrow’, it almost gives us an excuse of why change happens so slowly. There are a lot of reform movements, climate change for example. We keep saying that things are going to change that we are going to save the planets but then it is pushed off until next year, the decade, the next generation. Because it is almost as if we don’t think something truly bad can happen. You also see how time is taken for granted when there is a murder. People so ‘Oh they were so young, they had so much life to live.’ For us good and bad things have …show more content…
To us they may seem reckless, never planning for the future, but if you are always waiting for the future to happen when do you have time to live your life? When the Huaorani experience an emotion it has been described as if it will last forever, I think it is this way because to them it might. They may be killed before the next emotion can come in. To them there is no need to save food because why should you have something that you are not going to