Living In the Moment
I was thinking the other day about how much of our lives we spend worrying about dying or death or the future. Especially now during these dark times of despair. I say despair because you are alive and not dead. Do not worry about tomorrow or yesterday for today has enough troubles of its own. This has been said many times before and is still relevant today. I say even more so today because of all the distractions we have.
When you think about it our past is just what we remember about it. Human memory is not perfect either. So most of it is memories mixed with emotions which make it mostly imaginary. I can’t remember what I ate last week for example. I do remember things when I listen to music because it has an emotion attached to the memory. Unfortunately bad memories work the same way. Our emotions are also a filter for memory. The goal is to create good memories.
“Time isn’t precious at all, because it is an illusion. What you perceive as precious is not time but the one point that is out of time: the Now. That is precious indeed. The more you are focused on time — past and future — the more you miss the Now, the most precious thing there is.” ― Eckhart Tolle
The future is totally imaginary because it has not happened yet.
“Children have neither a past nor a future. Thus they enjoy the present, which seldom happens to us.” —…
