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This
moment is all you have
At a certain point, life becomes less
about who you're becoming and more about who you've become.
What you used to think of as the future has become the present, and
you can't help but wonder if your life wouldn't be better if you'd
just lived it more fully in the past. But how could you
have? You were too busy thinking about the future!
Once
you're past a certain age, you can hardly believe you wasted even
one minute of your youth not enjoying it. And the last thing
you want to do now is steal any more life from yourself by failing
to be deeply in it while it's happening. You finally get
it--not just theoretically, but viscerally--that this moment is all
you have.
You don't close your eyes anymore and wonder
who you might be in 20 years; if you're smart, you study the tape of
your current existence to monitor how you're doing now. You
see the present as an ongoing act of creation. You look more
closely at your thoughts, behavior, and interaction with
others. You understand that if you're coming at life from fear
and separation, you have no reason to expect anything but fear and
separation back. You seek to increase your strengths and
decrease your weaknesses. You look at your wounds and ask God
to heal them. You ask forgiveness for the things you're
ashamed of. You no longer seek your satisfaction in things
outside yourself, completion in other people, or peace of mind in
either the past or future. You are who you are, not
who you might one day be. Your life is what it is,
not what it might someday be. Focusing on who you are and what
your life is right now, you come to the ironic and almost amusing
realization that, yes, the fun is in the journey itself.
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