Be here now. It’s all we can really ever learn to do to get by. If we’re not present for our greatest victories, why did we work so hard to achieve them? If we’re not present in our sorrow, then are we simply suffering in vain? Life can be complicated. It can be cruel and intimidating and harsh for no apparent reason. All we did, after all, was appear here. Why must life be cruel to us? We don’t know, but the fact is that it can happen, and it does happen, not only often, but all the time. Every second, life is amazing and beautiful and the greatest treasure one could ever receive, but at that same second there is death, and hate, and abuses of all kinds. Life is that too, and it’s all happening simultaneously. I don’t know the reason why it has to be this way, and I’m sure you don’t know it either, but the fact is that it is. We can whine about it or we can take action and see what we make of it, what we can create from the way things are. After all, this is the only way we’ve ever known things to be, and if we spend our lives waiting for things to be different so that we can start doing what we want to do will only lead to great disappointment and dissatisfaction. Life is here now, and we have to face it head on and live it. We can’t wait until we’re more prepared, we can’t wait until we’re stronger or wiser or until we have it all figured out. Sooner or later, we’ll realize that never happens, that moment never arrives. If we think that life cares about our plans, about our hopes and dreams, we are sadly mistaken. We say we’re the ones who are living life, but if we stop and really think about it from another perspective, it actually makes more sense that life is what is living us. We don’t know how we breathe, or how we digest the food that we eat. We don’t know what our next thought will be, or where it comes from. We don’t even know where we come from. It seems to me as though we are merely guests in this existence, living on borrowed time, observing something we have no control over. Now, if you’ve read some of my previous posts you might think I’m contradicting myself with this whole idea about life being something that merely happens to us, rather than something we are actively creating. You would be right, because I do believe we have control in life. We have the power to be in control of ourselves, and of how we react to the situations we face in this life. Life itself is outside of our control, and perhaps the only true power we have as human beings lies in how we react to what goes on in our lives. As I write this, I realize, although I do wish to share useful wisdom with the world, I am also typing this as a kind of reminder to myself. Sometimes life makes me wonder how I’ll ever get through everything that awaits me in the future. Death, for example, is certain. We all experience loss of loved ones, illnesses, all kinds of things that can break our spirit and makes us question why we are even here in the first place. As I write from the depths of my own confusion, I don’t claim to have any sort of answer for you, so all I can tell you is that if you ever feel the same way, like you have no idea how you’ll survive what’s to come, just remember to be here now. You don’t have to survive tomorrow’s hardships now, since there might not even be a tomorrow at all. You only have the now. Get through it. If another now comes, whether a good or bad now, accept it for what it is and be with it, be there now. Don’t wish it was gone, because it is a part of your life. Life is nothing but a series of nows.
I really appreciate you reading and wish you all the love and happiness.
rebel eye 