– Dr. D.V. Krishnamoorty.
Hopeful of future – day – dreaming – hence loss of interest in the present -indifference – carelessness due to day-dreaming.
The Clematis type of person always lives in the future. He not merely thinks of what he is going to do or get in the future, but lives in it (in his mind) as he is always hopeful of getting them or reaching his goal. (castles in the air)
He is a day-dreamer. He lives happily in castles in the air. An alnascher! Planning for the future is not bad, because only then we can act effectively in the present in order to reach our goal. But the Clematis type of person does this to the extreme; he not only plans but goes to the extent of living in the future, all in his mind! ? It is all a day-dream. This constant living in the future prevents him from taking any interest in the present.
Let us see some practical case.
There is the story in olden days, of a milk-maid who was earning her daily bread by selling milk which she used to carry in a pail on her head. The proceeds of that pail would not suffice for that days bread. One day while carrying the milk on her head she began to plan in her mind as under:
Today I will sell more milk than I did yesterday. Tomorrow I will sell double that and the next day four times. In a week I will employ assistants. In a months time I will have my own dairy farm and in six months time I will have my own bungalows, vehicles and so on. I will even give directions to my servants.
Thinking thus and living in her mind in an imaginary happy future, she moved her hands this way and that, as if she was giving directions to his servants. The result was that the pail fell down, spilling all the milk on the ground. She lost that very days income.
Day-dreaming under the guise of planning for the future.
But she did not regret this. Instead, she thought: So what? One day, I am going to have all comforts by increasing my business.
Several-folds and before that wealth this pail of milk is nothing. But that poor maid did not realise that days milk was the investment for her future plans and so that days milk had a crucial value for the present.
She had to borrow for that days food! The extreme living in future makes the person indifferent (to things of the present).
You will invariably find the CLEMATIS type of person looking at a distance because his mind is always in the future where he hopes to be happy and joyful with all comforts.
He is not dressed properly. This is because he is a day- dreaming type and he is unable to apply his mind to the present.
A clerk will spend all his monthly salary in a weeks time, and start taking loans, because he is hopeful, may, confident, or winning some lakhs in a lottery. To be hopeful is good, as otherwise life would become meaningless (Gorse type). But ignoring the things of the present and living in the future in imagination is not good.
The HONEYSUCKLE type of individual merely think of the past regretting over the missed opportunities and lost chances, But the CLEMATIS type of individual lives in the future (in his mind) with full of hopes.
A day-dreaming is carried beyond limits he is unable to realise that what one desires can be had only if one acts in the present to reach his goal, As he is constantly thinking of the future and living in it, his body is unable to cope with the demands of the present. So, we find the term indifferent to things around.
It may not be easy to find out that he is a day-dreader. But the very words coming from his mouth would reveal this to us, He uses the words One day… or A day will come when I shall be… (able to accomplish great things etc…) He is always living in future, with all of happiness and comforts, We should remember that the CLEMATIS future is one with full of hopes. Where as the HONEYSUCKLES thinking of past is with full of regrets. HORNBEAMS case is dread of failure in the immediate future.
The CLEMATIS type of people are really talented and they are capable of becoming great men, If they have the will there will be a way. Nature always works correctly and systematically, She makes a person hopeful only when he is capable of accomplishing the things he is hoping for.
It is only because the (Clematis types) are great they build hopes for the future. Planning for the future is no doubt good. But when this is not supported by action in the present results in day-dreaming with the result the present is ignored. You will find the CLEMATIS patient never regretting the losses he incurs due to his indifference, because he is hopeful of the future.
Here is a very good example. This was a married men of thirty eight. His wife had left him in his twenty-eight year, to live with another man by whom she subsequently bore two children. Yet, the first men was continuing all his prayers, pujas and other religious observances for her return to him. He used to say: I am confident that she will definitely return to me one day, But I don’t understand why she is not coming back still.
This CLEMATIS patient was confident that his lost wife would return to him and so he lives happily in the future almost as if she has directly joined him.