Today I had the best time of my life. If tomorrow comes, I will then, too.
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Today I caught myself getting excited about the future, but I stopped myself dead in my tracks.
Hell, I know–that sounds like I’ve become a cynical dark cloud. My reservations are justified, though. Again and again, there were things and opportunities that I thought would make a quantum shift in my life for the better…but they never did. Today I was getting my hopes up again.
One of the supervisors at a new job was telling me how things would get better and better for me as the years go by. How good the benefits would be. How much there was to look forward to.
And I agree–he was right.
The future will be filled with much good… and some bad, too. Some things will be happening as planned. Some things will be pleasant surprises. Sometime I will be unpleasantly surprised. Gut-wrenching defeats happen, as well, especially when we're striving for our own greatness.
So, I caught myself–and paused. And then, it hit me.
First, I realized I was grateful to have my health–thank God!
Second…
Right now is the best moment of my life. And that’s how it will always be. Will I seize it? Or will I forsake it again wishing and fantasizing about a time where everything will be different and more how I would like it to be?
I am not saying anything new here. To the wiser folks out there who are gracious enough to read my website, you must be saying (with a smile), “Yeah, of course!" Not that what I'm writing is an ultimate truth. It may not even be fair to say that it's anything more than my truth. But it's the best I know right now, given all that I've experienced. I'm honoring that.
But it’s one thing to know this, and another thing to feel it and live it.
Sometimes we need something to bring us back to reality.
Yes.
But more than that, I want to be brought back to the moment. It’s the best time of my life, after all.