Worrying has nearly turned into background noise for most of us, we hardly notice it until we stop to think that our mind's been otherwhere throughout life.
When your mind is thinking about what’s happened versus what’s going to happen, you’re not actually in the present moment, without a doubt this isn’t in a deep, spiritual way. Not being present in the moment has one main result, you missing out on so many things.
You miss the way the light hits the window at different times, you miss watching someone’s facial expressions change when they laugh. All the little things like those are really what our actual present experiences are.
I’ve been working on trying harder to be presen. I think it’s difficult for me because my mind doesn’t just shut off the noise once I get my mind on this subject. I usually stop and say to myself, here I am, seeing something that’s actually happening. Then 2 minutes later my mind is working again, working on repeating something I said a few minutes earlier or thinking about something I may never experience the opportunity to have.
I’m not convinced there is a trick to being present in the moment, something to be conscious of when you have drifted and then correct, conscious of it again and correct multiple times.
The present moment is always here. Present times will never wait until you’re ready, it will always just be, then it will no longer be. I'm going to try my absolute best to be mindful rather than having my mind full of so much that is not exactly necessary. I now know and I have accepted that the true way to enjoy life is not in imagining a better future because no matter how good it is it could be better and better and never ends. That's how some are never fulfilled.
