Sunday, November 20, 2011
When I was younger, even in high school and college, I think I did a decent job at living in the moment. Like really enjoying and being in the moment. Not worrying about the future or what was to come. I was passionate about taking full advantage of every moment of my life!
These days I'm not so good at it. Sometimes I'm thinking about the past and how things have changed. But I'm often thinking about the next step - what is going to happen? What does the future bring? Where will I end up? How does it all end? The list of questions is long.
But what about this exact moment? This moment is all that I have. It is all that any of us have.
I'm working really hard to get back to that attitude... the almost childlike amazement with the present moment... living each moment to its absolute fullest... living fully present.
So during this season as the days get shorter and colder, it is my impulse to countdown until spring gets here. Until life sprouts up where there has been death. Spring - I long for it and I love it! And it represents new possibilities, new life!
But... this is where I am. I know that the outside world shows me a season that I do not enjoy. Fall is fully here and winter is just around the corner. The truth is, fall is beautiful. And you have to have fall and winter to enable the new life of spring. In my own season of life, I am in a state of uncertainty. I am tired and worn out from a busy time. I am not sure what the future brings. I'm not sure what I long for.
My hope for this 365 project is that it helps to ground me in the moment.
This moment is all that I have. And I will embrace it!
(It all sounds very 'yoga-speak' as I like to call it... these days, I LOVE 'yoga speak'!) :)
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