So you want a better life?
The question is what is life?
Very few people can answer this question. Can you?
Have you ever asked yourself - what do I really want? If you will really contemplate on the issue, you will be amazed to discover that after getting everything you want, money, power, position, name, relationship - after making a round trip, all you really want is to be here, now. All you want is to take a deep breath and stay relaxed. All you want is the aliveness that you feel within yourself.
It is funny, if you really think about it. Continuously living through the past and into the future is as if you are staying out of your home, roaming in streets, often getting lost in a dessert so that eventually you can stay at home.
Unfortunately, you have a story about yourself. And somehow your entire focus is to continue and enhance that story. Your story comes from your past and you want to stretch it to future, perhaps modify it or make it a bit more interesting. But however hard you may try, you will never be able to make your story better - unless you tune into this moment, unless you live in the present time and space, unless you do not runaway from this moment.
If you smell something mystical or metaphysical about this, you are wrong. In fact it is more rational and practical than anything in the world. It is spiritual yet practical. Look, can you enjoy the taste of ice-cream that you are gulping down in some future moment. Is there anything you will do in the future? Of course not, anything you do, any experience you can cherish can happen only in the now. So if you want to get the real taste of life, you can get only in the now.
So the first life skill you must acquire is to get in sync with life, to tune into life by getting in tune with the present moment. How? Search now into other articles. |
