There are times when i think out for my family, my parents when
they are old what will happen.
What will happen when i grow till middle age, what will happen
when i'm old.
Damm i'm so young yet all the thoughts keep coming and i keep
crying.
Is there any problems with myself?
I wonder whether africans have such worries.
Our culture divides time into two
parts, the past and the future, which meet at the present moment --
an instant without
duration.
This is reflected in European
languages, which have tenses in the past, present, and
future. But some peoples, such as the Bantu of Africa, do not
have time classes of this sort in their language or social
outlook.
Many Bantu tongues divide verbs
into those concerned with completed and uncompleted
actions. They have no future tense because they categorize the
future and the present together into a single form concerned with
unfinished actions. (Similarly, in English we sometimes say, "I am
going to school tomorrow," using the present tense for a future
action.)
In the usual Bantu cognitive system, time is quite different from
what it is to middle-class Americans, since it consists of a
present of long duration and great importance; a past of less
importance and moderate duration, such as can be held in personal
memory; and almost no future distinguishable from the
present.
Among some of these people, the future is not conceivable beyond
the next few days and certainly has no meaning in terms of
years. These people live in and value the present
with all its problems, pleasures, and human relationships. Such
people, even if they are given birth-control devices, are unlikely
to use them, simply because they have no training in subjecting
present relations to a hypothetical event nine months in the
future.
Such cognitive differences are of great significance, especially
when value systems are different. The African values the
present, whereas many middle-class Americans put all emphasis on
the importance of the future and are ready to make almost any
sacrifice in the present for the sake of some hypothetical future
benefit. In contrast to both, the aristocrat of
today, like the ancient Greek, usually puts highest valuation on
the past.
http://www.carrollquigley.net/Articles/Needed-A-Revolution-in-Thinking.htm
