Now I am not talking here about the 'in the moment' activity of goal setting or planning, which is a conscious action made in current time to set a destination or a path. In this act, you are fully present much like the master of a ship who is determining his next port or destination. Then once determined you set off on your journey, ever present and experiencing each moment as it comes: This is a somewhat different experience to that of living in the past or future, instead of being fully present and alive NOW.
This shift to living other than in the present is not conducive to experiencing the best life has to offer. In fact it shortens and robs us of the fibre of our being and this activity should not be mistaken for the productive and valuable process of evaluating life's events for its lessons and evaluations which can be used to help us on our way.
So I guess my message is that outside of a healthful analysis of our past and an optimistic evaluation and plan for our future, our time and our life is for living now.
I read somewhere that,"in the past you hear the words your future calls for you to be happy, so be happy now." I still haven't fully mastered the attitude, but I give it my best shot. Like most things in life, our being happy is primarily a decision-made and kept.
Living in the "NOW" is the most intelligent decison we can ever take. No matter how alluring or otherwise our pasts are,they should not dictate how we live in the present. The future would be fashioned out by the way we live now,hence the need to live fully in the present.
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