This here and now is where it is actually at. This is the moment you've been waiting for all your life. This is the moment you must appreciate without all those other things you long for. Look, longing really is the sweetest thing. Having those dreams is brilliant. Don't let anyone ever tell you dreaming is a bad thing. But appreciate that it is the you right now that is doing the dreaming. Enjoy the wishing and the longing. Enjoy being alive and having the strength and vitality to do all that dreaming.
Living in the moment doesn't mean throwing away all your responsibilities and cares. It just means taking a moment or two every now and then to appreciate being alive and to aim to act like today matters and live life to the full, right here, right now.
We can't project all our future happiness into the future. If only this or that was changed everything would be perfect, wouldn't it? Unfortunately not - it just doesn't work like that. When this and that gets changed there will always be something else, waiting its turn and putting off that happiness until some later date. You'd find other things to wish for to make you happy.
The key is to appreciate what we've got right now and yet still dream and plan. That way we'll be a little happier now than if we're constantly looking to the future, where happiness apparently lies.
And don't go thinking it's all right for me, it's not. Value the way you are and appreciate what you've got right now because - and this is the secret - it is real. The me is now is the real me, the future one isn't yet born and may not happen. And the stuff I have now is at least real, tangible, solid. Dreams are great but reality is fine too.
Dreams are great but reality is fine too
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