I always try to think of my life in terms of the future - what am I going to do when I graduate? Will I have enough money for France this summer? Will I continue to play music through the years? Will I get nervous going home to meet C's parents? So many questions, but I rarely find that I have the answer to anything. I've learned that I need to stop focusing on the future, when I'm living right now in the present. Nothing else should matter if I focus on the beautiful moment I'm living in this very second. I also need to learn that the past is the past for a reason - it's there to serve as a reminder of both the bad and the good times one's encountered, as well as to grow from mistakes and to take joy in the fond memories you've had, yet the past is just that...the past. One can only grow from that and continue to live life growing constantly, mentally and physically. I've become so much more mentally aware of how much more of a confident person I am these days - I feel happier, more energetic, more creative and always inspired...when I let go of the worries of yesterday and tomorrow, and start to solely focus on the now, I think I then begin to realize that none of it is going to matter in the end. What matters is what's going on in my heart, my mind, and my life at THIS very moment, not any time other than this. Nuh-uh. At this very moment, I am grateful for the fact that I'm laying in my comfortable bed with my bright green laptop atop my lap clacking away at the keyboard, stealing glances at the beautiful roses sitting in the outline of my window. I appreciate these little moments. I feel that I'm more appreciative of the things in my life when I think of them in current times - I'm so thankful for the friends I have now, the boy who loves me, the school I'm currently attending, and the guitar I get to pick up and make music from whenever I so damn please. Life is beautiful right now! Not just in mine, but in yours too...you just have to realize it first. If you don't focus on the now, and take the time to breathe in the little moments that make up the grander frame that is life, then you'll never truly appreciate just how awesome things are. Yeeeooowzaaa! It's a pretty cool thought when you stop to think about it :)
Seriously though....life is beautiful, but you have to be living it in the now to fully recognize that. Don't let it go before you've experienced both the passion and pain of it all!
xo
Jardin
ps. I took a yoga course at school last semester and we had to read Eckhart Tolle's A New Earth as one of our class assignments...I think he has a lot of good things to say about this very subject...i.e. living your life in the "now" and keeping your mind focused on the present! Here's a couple passages that stand out to me in particular:
"The great arises out of small things that are honored and cared for. Everybody's life really consists of small things. Greatness is a mental abstraction and a favorite fantasy of the ego. The paradox is that the foundation for greatness is honoring the small things of the present moment instead of pursuing the idea of greatness. The present moment is always small in the sense that it is always simple, but concealed within it lies the greatest power... only when you align yourself with the present moment do you have access to that power."
Empower yourself in the present moment!! What a rad concept is that?! Live your life as if you had no idea what next week will hold for you. Stop to admire all the "small things" that are so seemingly irrelevant as you go about your daily actions. You'll be surprised as to how beautiful the world seems when you look at it from a different vantage point...
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