Why Living In The Now Might Be The Best Advice?
No past’s grief. No future’s anxiety.
“ If you aren’t in the moment, you are either looking forward to uncertainty, or back to pain and regret.”
— Jim Carrey
THOUGHTS
Look around.
Now, look at yourself.
Be honest and ask yourself, how much did time did you invest in doing something and how much was invested in thinking about the past in the last 24 hours? Thinking about it affects your actions in the now much more than you’d expect.
And how much space in your head was occupied by future’s anxiety in the last 24 hours?
If you lived the last 24 hours just being present in the moment, then either you don’t remember your last day properly or you are not being true to yourself.
Well, we are humans, full of flaws and imperfections.
We all do keep thinking about past and future all the time.
What’s important is to either direct such thoughts or reduce them as much as possible. The goal is not to be productive but happy and productive.
Yes, nothing mind-blowing in that, but then, if you really want to understand why living in the now is important and how to do it, keep reading.
A time will come in your life or has already arrived when you’ll realize how important our thoughts are and just how much your life is affected by what you think.
TIME
Do you know what time is? Time is a an illusion.
Well, let me rephrase it, the concept of time is an illusion.
Time is nothing more than another direction in space, just more complicated than the 3 usual dimensions.
That’s physics, not philosophy. Albert Einstein said it.
He also quoted,
“The only reason for time is so that everything doesn’t happen at once.”
-Albert Einstein
According to him, the past, the present and the future all exits simultaneously.
Albert left a crucial message. Reason for the existence of time is owing to the fact that everything cannot happen at the same time. Implying we should stop doing and thinking about so many things and that too, all at the same time.
Anyway, it’s not technically possible for a human mind to multi-task.
Time won’t let me go. Time won’t let you go.
We will experience it no matter what. Sometimes, it flies, sometimes, it feels frozen.
Understanding the time is such an important thing we all should be aware of how it’s only draining has been a blessing to my life.
Learning this was not enough when I came to learn yet another astonishing fact about time.
It’s not just important to know what is time exactly. What more important is to be aware who and what we spend it on, until you invent a time machine in future, oh wait, you already would have known if that would happen.
Don’t stress, if you think you wasted a lot your time in your past. It’s okay. We all did.
Past
From one human to another, my one simple learning and advice about past to you would be, don’t dwell with the past.
Never dwell with the past, it never ever ends up good.
This realization is important.
YOU CAN’T CHANGE THE PAST.
A more important realization is this, it’s a good thing the past can’t be changed because if it weren’t for the past, you wouldn’t have been here.
Present
“I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is.”
— Alan Watts
It is what it is. It depends upon the series of ‘present’(s) from your past.
Everyone remembers the best and the most important moments in life from past.
Do you realize those past moments were nothing but your present at the time?
Conclusion is simple and straight forward. Nothing more to say here.
The Present is the most important moment of your life. The ‘Now’.
Our thoughts, our feelings, our actions, out reactions and our habits is what determines it all.
Future
“Future is no place to keep your happiness”
What you do in the now, in the present is what determines your future.
You can and you will have a beautiful and awesome future, just stop focusing on the future.
Future’s past is the present.
Everyone looks back at their life and thinks about what all they could have done in the ‘past’ to have a better present and regret it.
You are already here, in the now to make things okay in the future. Don’t just keep thinking about the future. Anxiety isn’t the answer.
So, do it. Now.
Act
Thoughts make you. Motivation gets you going.
But motivation gets nothing done on itself. Motivation is smokes and mirror.
Action is everything and actions of the past doesn’t matter now, actions of the future depends upon your habits that you have build today. In the present. In the now.
Now is everything. Something amazing won’t happen in a day but years from today, all the “now”(s) will add to make your life beyond amazing.
Actions make your life. Go out. Go ahead.
Go all the way.
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