Living in the Moment

Living in the Moment-

Do you find it difficult to live in the moment?  Even when you are having a wonderful time, are you thinking ahead to the next moment?

We only have one moment at a time.  In fact as I write, moments of my life are gone never to appear again.  There goes another one.  And another.  I give up.  It's too difficult to write about the moment.

Lumping many moments together is easier for me to grasp.  For instance, an hour has meaning.  It is broken into many moments--sixty minutes.  Is a moment and a minute the same thing?  Or is a moment a fragment of a minute?  This is going to drive me nuts.

When I schedule coffee with a friend, we select a time frame.   Same thing with appointments at the doctor office, the dentist office, the hair dresser.  In our world our day is divided into twenty-four hours.  We schedule everything around and within those hours.  It gives us boundaries.   We can manage our lives quite well within that time frame.

Back to the original thought--living in the moment.

It is so important to give full attention to those who wander into our moments.  I know it has been said many times, but it is true.  Establishing eye contact with anyone who happens into our moment tells them we are fully engaged for that moment in time.  Often we are gifted with special moments.  Do we recognize them when they appear?  Or do we hurry on into the next moment?  Are we thinking about the next moment as we are listening to them?

Maybe it is about slowing down enough to recognize how special our moments truly are.  Our days hurry by--one moment at a time.  And then they are gone.

Would it be possible for you to live your life a bit slower?  To see the moment for the gift it is?   We can all try, can't we?  But, there is an interesting thing about the word "try."  It is just short of commitment.  We give ourselves a way out.  We probably don't really intend to do what we say we will try to do.  However, we want  others to think we are going to give whatever it is a shot.

Oh well.  My moment with you is passed.  My next moment will be spent with a coke float.  Yummmmm!