Living In The Moment

Living in the Moment

As much as we all want to fully enjoy life we don’t know how, we experience enjoyment in such variability that we’re not able to pin it down to an exact science. The thing is living is easy, but truly enjoying and appreciating life’s most memorable moments takes a conscious effort. When was the last time you allowed yourself to just sit and savor the present moment – not reminiscing about the past and not anticipating the future? Not doing anything just being. Being in the here and in the now. It’s strange but what we don’t realize is that life is now, not five years from now not in the troubled past memories but now. Why is it then that we can’t quite our minds and live?

Is it because we have sold our attention to things that were once trivial to us? Is it because of our obsessive commitment to staying connected with the world that we have lost connection with our self?
Whatever it may be, it all comes down to our inability to live consciously. Our thoughts have become our masters and are lives circle around them not allowing us to see them objectively – to get the bigger picture. We have lost the choice to dwell on something instead we only know how to slip into a thought pattern and then get lost in it until something from beyond our control nudges us and brings us back.
The sad truth is that living in the moment is not something we are taught in our lives neither something that is much talked about. We hear it every now and then from wise old people but we don’t know what they really mean by it. If we were all to be more present in our lives everything we do would echo that notion. Our every action would come from place of pure focus and attention. We would no longer be dominated by our never ending thoughts. We would go for what we want because not going for what we want because of what might happen next is something people not living in the moment think about it.
Suddenly and at times subtly we will start to realize how beautiful our lives really are. How so many interesting, fun and amazing things happen around us. All our conversations would become highly engaging because we won’t be thinking about what we ought to do right after this conversation.
Happiness is a universal common desire something we all feel like we deserve yet so few of us know that Happiness is here and now. If we are not happy now, we might as well admit we are not happy. Happiness is not in the past, sometime in the future, or at the end of any road. It can't be obtained through reasoning or acquired through thought. It can only be felt in this exact moment where we are standing. The distance between us and happiness is 0. . Listen to your emotions and chose to feel happy.

Free yourself from your thoughts, free yourself from things that drain the life out of you for you only live once. Free yourself from any weight of the past or any anticipation of the future. Realize that only you can control how you feel - about anything. Free to see things for what they are and free to give your time and energy to what really matters to you.

“You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment. Fools stand on their island of opportunities and look toward another land. There is no other land; there is no other life but this.”
― Henry David Thoreau