2190. Conjecture about things to come, and the memory of things past, are what take away all the pleasantness of life and happiness. They cause worry, cares, anxiety. Therefore it is impossible that those in a state of happiness should have that kind of memory and that kind of forethought-even though they do not know any better than that they possess most excellent memory and most excellent prudence, or forethought, since they have it from the Lord and it is thus Divine. Nonetheless, it is such as I have told. 1748, 4 June.