Milan Kundera’s One Mind-Blowing Life Lesson That Changed The Way I Live
A reality-changing lesson for life.
How I spend the present is how I live. But I live without fully understanding what’s ahead of me. Sometimes life rushes by before I can experience it. Nothing is guaranteed. But nothing is also random either. Reflecting on how far I’ve come, I’m certain I had no idea what the next 10 years could be. Even now, I have no clue where I’ll be in five years.
But the one thing I believe is that the present is an experience, not an explanation.
I came across this quote by novelist Milan Kundera that explains life in the “here and now” beautifully. “We pass through the present with our eyes blindfolded. We are permitted merely to sense and guess at what we are actually experiencing. Only later when the cloth is untied can we glance at the past and find out what we have experienced and what meaning it has,” notes Kundera in his book, Laughable Loves.
Only in retrospect can we make sense of how spent time. How we lived. The present may never give us clarity. But we can experience it. I live through it, knowing that “time well spent” is “life well spent.”
The mind wants answers now. But life doesn’t work that way. Lao Tzu wrote, “Do you have the patience to wait until your…
