So
it’s the first day of a fresh new month. The sun is shining more than it’s
raining, when we finish work at 5.30pm it’s still light outside and we are one
month closer to summer. One might say we have quite a lot to be happy about.
However, the reality is that no matter how bloody beautiful it is outside or
how swimmingly well our lives are going, the twenty-first century human being
has a habit of either dwelling on the past, or worrying about the future. The
present ‘now’ doesn’t become a sincerely meaningful thing until tomorrow comes
and it’s transformed into the past.
As
humans, we are very very bad at appreciating the present moment. Actually, not
even appreciating it but merely living it.
Everything boils down to yesterday or tomorrow. But what about right now? Like, right this second? How
are you feeling? The past has been and gone and you’re never going to create a
time-machine, so really, the most important moments of our lives are the ones
that we’re drifting straight through whilst our busy minds are set to
autopilot.