Recently, Cate and John (5) showed that future time
perspective can also be conceived in terms of two qualitative
dimensions: Focus on opportunities and focus on limitations.
Individuals with a strong focus on opportunities perceive
their futures in positive ways. They concentrate on the
options, plans, and goals, they can still pursue in their
remaining life time. In contrast, individuals with a strong
focus on limitations perceive many restrictions and
boundaries that lie in the time ahead, and concentrate on
losses and limitations. Simons et al. (19) argued that there is
a strong relationship between future time perspective and the
utility of what the person is doing. That is, individuals with
longer future time perspective perceive their present
behavior as more instrumental in achieving a broad range of
short-term and long-term goals. If people who look on the
bright side on the future, they would set up their future goals,
and try their best to achieve them. If they had the positive
imagination to the future lives, they would have better future
imagination tendency, and future time perspective. Future
time perspective is closely related to the imagination