Live Awesome

Like worrying, living in the present moment is something that seems to be discouraged in society these days. Take careers, for example. Many, many people work jobs that they hate simply because it provides them with their paycheque every 2 weeks and so that they can make contributions to their pension plan. At the same time, people spend all kinds of time thinking about past experiences and how they would change them if they could go back. Don’t get me wrong, planning for the future is not a bad thing to do, but it shouldn’t consume all of your present moments. As for memories, they’re a beautiful thing to have, but wishing we could go back and change them is a waste of time.

Quite simply, the past and the future don’t exist. There is absolutely no way we can go back to a past event and change what happened, no matter how hard we wish it. At the same time, we can’t travel into the future and arrange things a certain way for ourselves. We have to be able to deal with the actions we have performed and we have to accept that the future is, for the most part, a complete mystery. That’s intriguing though, isn’t it?

Once we realize this, we can see that the only time that exists is right now. Life, really, is a series of right now’s; a series of present moments that come and go. Once one present moment is lived, it is gone and we can’t change it. We don’t know what future present moments will hold, either. This is simply because in the past and the future, present moments don’t exist.

So if all we have is right now, this present moment, why would we spend it doing anything that we do not want to do? Why do we continue to wake up everyday and participate in something that is degenerating us? It’s habit, yes. Society for the most part accepts it as a fact of life, yes. The problem with this viewpoint, however, is that doing things simply because we are used to them and comfortable with them is an extremely unhealthy habit in and of itself. The most breathtaking things in life that you can do are things that are new and exciting.

If you find yourself using up your present moment worrying or doing anything else that you don’t enjoy, simply change it. Don’t like your job? Find something else that you do like! Don’t like any other activity that you feel obligated to do? Don’t do it! Find something else! Even though it seems scary, change is not a bad thing at all.

Live in you moment. Enjoy your moment to the fullest extent.

After all, how many moments will we get?