You wait for something you hope to happen—a prize you expect to gain—a certain outcome. If it comes to you or not, be here now. Focus on this now moment, where peace resides. When you place your hopes solely on a distant, desired outcome, the now disappears. Where did it go? It was lost in the fog of the future. Here and now is assured. The future is uncertain, because it does not exist. There is only one now moment after another.
When you can maintain your focus fully in the present, savoring each now moment aware of your True Self, then each now moment which follows has a whole new sense of perfection and rightness.
The True Self does not exist in the future. It exists here and now always. Any you that you see in the future or hope for in the future is your human self. There is nothing wrong with this, but when you focus here and now and develop fully your sense of Who you are, the human experience falls into place far more beautifully, with no worry of the future. You realize that all is in perfect order as the now becomes the now becomes the now as Spirit unfolds.