The Best Present is the Present Moment

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We all have our cherished possessions that we like to hold dear all our lives and then pass them on to our dear ones. However, they are transient in nature and separated sooner than we are comfortable with their parting. We have to get used to changing circumstances and to adjust and move on. I never planned major phases in my life and they just happened. Some that I had in mind, I couldn’t pursue but they proved a blessing in disguise, even a stroke of luck, as they would have turned as an albatross around my neck. I look back and am happy that I could leave some issues behind and look ahead. The world has that capacity to wipe the past clean and the present virus has not pinned us down and we are able to work around it. We have taken it in our stride while wracking our brains to get our lives back to the good old days. This year has reinforced a fact of life – there is no predictability in life and our ability to adjust and go with the flow decides how comfortable we are with our existence here. That applies to the king and the common folks. I have faced end of my world scenarios a few times but they are water under the bridge now. And a few opportunities along the way mostly spurned due to my wanting not to leave my comfort zones. No regrets except to recall the famous lines “There is a tide in the affairs of men. Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune”. However, I have found meaning in whatever life has given me and I embrace a fact that I have only the present moment to live my life, past is over, the future is uncertain, so why fret? Move on is my credo – nothing is the end and that most believe so, maybe our inner voice is reassuring us then. Look beyond the body and still the mind and then we know who we really are. When we make that a way of life, then we are beyond time, physical decay and other constraints that limit us. All part of the game and we are mere actors playing different roles. Image from Pixabay; the present moment is the best present