Presence

The past is gone, the future is yet to come, and all around us is the present. So they say. But who can say that they see what is here and now and live truly in this moment?

We don't have any other moment to live in...only this moment. Not that moment then; it's gone. This one...now!

As soon as I said it it had gone. So in a way you have to be living very slightly in the future: just enough that the moment doesn't slip past without you.

But what are you seeing?

Always something else - I wish things were different, if only this were bigger/smaller/thinner/fatter/yellower/faster/slower/hotter/colder, maybe this time next year I'll be..., at school they said I was the best/worst/good/bad/would go far/would never amount to much, I wonder what...

You have the capacity to think of far off things, places, and people. And also the ability to see the present. Can you see it?

Are you looking for something different? This is what you've got now. It's yours, for you, by you, for you to live in. You can change it if you don't like it, but don't miss it because that's your life at this moment.

You could spend your whole life wishing to be just a few centimetres less tall, but at the end of it...what did you live?

It's HERE and NOW. The present. Like a Christmas present. It's the present, a present, for you, to make something with.