Live in the moment - by Edgar Barber

Live in the moment

“We regret the past, we fear the future, and were not particularly enthusiastic about the present”

Until we experience the freedom that occurs when we live in the moment, it is doubtful that we will find a more correct statement than quotation above. Most of us come to know the feeling of a head bowed with shame. Most of us think about the past and want to go back and change it. Our fantasies and expectations of the future can be so extreme that in our first romantic date we ask ourselves which lawyer we will address in the divorce case.

Almost every experience brings us to recall something from the past or start making implications for the future. At first, it is hard to live in the moment. It seems as though our thoughts will not stop. It is hard for us to simply enjoy ourselves. The solution is a new way of life, for example: whenever we discover that our thoughts are not focused on what is happening now, we can pray, meditate, or simply call a friend, to help us get out of our self-concentration and lack of gratitude, attitude. If we regret the past, we make up for it by living in a completely different way today. If we fear the future, we try to live responsibly today.

When we follow the steps and pray, we discover gradually that we start to live in the present; we will notice that these cases become more common. Our faith will help us live only for today. We will have hours, even days when our full attention is focused on that moment, not in the past filled with sorrow or a frightening future.

Edgar Barber