and I'm already gone...
Posted 08-02-2009 at 06:59 AM by LookinForMayberry
The decision to live mindfully isn't coming easy for me, but I am committed to the concept. I'm trying to encourage myself on my small progressive steps, despite my continual failures. One moment I am IN the moment, and then before I know it I find I am already gone... 
Somewhere, I gathered that the practice is like learning to ride a bike. Having never been well coordinated, this was an especially difficult pursuit for me, at the age of eight. My later attempts at roller-blading were the same, with less positive results. (To give a picture, my husband referred to my blading efforts as "lawn-diving.") Unlike the biking, I never did succeed.
Any way, moment by moment, step by step, I AM discovering that the advocates are correct -- all we really have is right now. Unhappiness comes from re-living my flawed perspective of the past, or my fear-based anticipation of a future that most likely will never be.
So, here I am, now, now, now, now, ....
Somewhere, I gathered that the practice is like learning to ride a bike. Having never been well coordinated, this was an especially difficult pursuit for me, at the age of eight. My later attempts at roller-blading were the same, with less positive results. (To give a picture, my husband referred to my blading efforts as "lawn-diving.") Unlike the biking, I never did succeed.
Any way, moment by moment, step by step, I AM discovering that the advocates are correct -- all we really have is right now. Unhappiness comes from re-living my flawed perspective of the past, or my fear-based anticipation of a future that most likely will never be.
So, here I am, now, now, now, now, ....
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