Letter to Self — 2

Keep presenting…

Shagufta
Writers’ Blokke
2 min readSep 25, 2021

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Photo by Kat Stokes on Unsplash

Dear you,

Do you know you were meant to live and be in the present?

You might have heard it a lot of times, or sometimes you may even have tried to do exactly the same.

But where do you end up?

Mostly, you find yourself treading the same path as before — constantly consuming the relishes of your dear past or of your dreamy future.

But where does the present lie?

Future or past — any of them can work for you.

However, the present is what accompanies you most of the time.

The fact is that you have not befriended it yet.

You have not embraced the moment, which is always with you.

That is your present waiting to be embraced by you.

Your past can offer you memories to enjoy, to learn from.

Your future can offer you the promise of the great time ahead.

But it is your present or this moment to be specific that only can take you through the sweetest journey of your past and future.

It is the one that can make you reach your desired destination through the memorable path you are going to take.

Isn’t it fascinating?

The journey that you started the very moment you realized the moment to exist.

This present moment is accountable to create your past and shape your future.

This fact alone proves why you should start living in your present.

All your worries would be reduced to a few if you embraced what is actually yours.

It is not something normal, because you rarely go with it. You are not used to it.

You live, relive, and relive again the places of your past — those lost places.

Sometimes, they haunt you and other times, you permit them to permeate into your present.

The future that you should plan of course but to the extent that costs you your present takes away all the joys of your life.

The gifts of the present cannot be replaced by any other thing.

You should utilize what’s there for you, in other words, what’s present.

Past and future have their own places, but most of your time should go reforming your present, which in turn sets everything right.

Happy present!

Yours ever,

I : )

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