Always live in the moment

[blackraven]

Originally Posted by AquarianPhoenix84

I am realizing now, at 29, that we should live in the moment, especially the good moments, because we never know when we will experience them again. Also, when things go bad we end up looking at moments we took for granted and wish we were back there.

This is what I am going through now. I look back on certain moments in my life, moments I took for granted, even moments that I wish would end, and now I'm wishing I was back there.

I wish I was 19 again. Even with the turmoil I had then, it was trivial. I wish I was 19 again. I had the world ahead of me, I was old enough to be an "adult" but still young enough to not know what I wanted but still be able to explore my options. Instead I let my fear of rejection take over and chose a path that just put me back to square one today.

I wish I took more risks, and I wish I started therapy at a younger age. I would have saved myself a lot of the mistakes that I made.

I also wish I enjoyed the good moments instead of live in my anxiety. There were many good moments. Yes there were bad ones too but if I knew then what I know now (so cliché, I know) I'd be able to handle most of those things differently.

I would also enjoy my family and spent more time with my Dad. I would have not felt defeated and controlled all the time but instead took the negativity I had around me and used it to my advantage.

Then again, If I didn't go through all that bull****, I wouldn't be who I am now. I just wish I picked up on it sooner.

I miss the times where my biggest worry was "will I pass Bio 102?" I miss the time where family vacations took place, even when uninvited guests pushed themselves in. There are still certain events in my past I don't miss but where I am right now, I miss the stuff that I did take for granted.

Forgive me if im repeating myself but I wanted to share this thought as it came through. Never take any day for granted.

Thank you

AquarianPhoenix84 - I feel to truly live in the present I have to let go of the past by accepting myself at the current age I am. I of course have wonderful and awful memories associated with the past, but for no reason would I ever want to return to any age other than where I'm at right now. Wisdom comes with each passing year and I wouldn't trade that wisdom, that was so hard to achieve, for anything. If when 'one' wants to return to a younger age, are they no longer living in the present moment? Just a thought. And if there are things liked better in the past, can we not change so that we can experience some of what we hold dear to our hearts in the past so that the present and future will be more of what we desire by living fully and joyously?

Blackraven

All experiences fade. If you had 10 times as many wonderful experiences, or if you had deeply appreciated the experiences you did have 10 times more, they would still fade. If you could go back and do things differently, it wouldn't matter quite as much as it may appear.

Everything you've experienced can be viewed as an opportunity for expansion. If we live our moments w/regrets and wishing we could 'go back' and redo certain things, we are wasting this moment right now. I am so very thankful that I've shifted to the degree I have. "If you always do what you've always done, you'll always get what you always got (and feel the way you've always felt)." Reworded slightly from Tony Robbins.

I think Im in love with Tony Robbins. Thank you for that.

[Miss Hepburn]

From the point where we stand...eyes closed...still....
We can feel the infinetesimal and the infinite.
We can go to the infinite from this finite world
in the stillness of being in the now ... is the bridge.

[lemex]

Originally Posted by blackraven

AquarianPhoenix84 - I feel to truly live in the present I have to let go of the past by accepting myself at the current age I am. I of course have wonderful and awful memories associated with the past, but for no reason would I ever want to return to any age other than where I'm at right now. Wisdom comes with each passing year and I wouldn't trade that wisdom, that was so hard to achieve, for anything. If when 'one' wants to return to a younger age, are they no longer living in the present moment? Just a thought. And if there are things liked better in the past, can we not change so that we can experience some of what we hold dear to our hearts in the past so that the present and future will be more of what we desire by living fully and joyously?

Blackraven

Raven, think of it as understanding and development we all grow through. It's not about letting go of the past because as mentioned it was not understanding. Both answer say the same thing don't you think. Oh if the young understood as you do now. Think of it as coming of age.

I live in the Future.

The present is transient.

[blackraven]

Originally Posted by lemex

Raven, think of it as understanding and development we all grow through. It's not about letting go of the past because as mentioned it was not understanding. Both answer say the same thing don't you think. Oh if the young understood as you do now. Think of it as coming of age.

lemex - Food for thought. Some are already quite wise beyond their current age. It's all a matter of how intent and intensely one desires to educate his or her mind beyond the parameters of societal conditioning.

Blackraven

[WmBuzz71]

Living in the moment to me is being aware of the moment. When looking back on my day, I notice a lot of missed opportunities that I could've took advantage to enhance my spiritual progression. My heart sends out vibrations to receive these moments, but I seem to let my brain get in the way.