Humans have been trained by our DNA, our evolutionary imperatives, our technology, and our commercial culture, to pay attention to "now." Video games, political distraction, even intoxication -- anything that sparkles those neurotransmitters becomes the Most Important Thing of the moment.
We also have been trained to think of "later" as "never." Credit cards? Inflation? Depletion? We'll let growth take care of that. You'll get that promotion, that bonus, that new influx into Social Security, that wrinkle-tightening, that new innovation.
But so many of the things we're doing to ourselves fall into the grey area, between "now," and "later/never." This area is sometimes called "soon" or "eventually."