We have too
much consummate desire for the future that we crave to have which is not a bad
thing at all. But it becomes very unhealthy to success when that consummate desire
gets to a point that we automatically stop living in the moment and we vacate
to the future quarters. The very essence of existence is not in the future or
the thoughts of the future alone; existence is embedded in the present. The reason
why some grandfathers have no tale to tell their little wards is simply because
they never enjoyed the process of their growing old. It can be very interesting
and equally uninteresting to watch how time passes over our lives without us
having the power to do anything about it.
My dear
friend, another killer of today is gross attention for tomorrow. It kills your
today and that same tomorrow. This is tantamount to focusing on hugely branched
trees making a forest but ignoring the seeds that should be planted today. It can
be likened to focusing on a score board by ignoring the game itself. When we
ignore the process and focus on the end results too much we may end up having
missed moments. Tomorrow is in the womb, yesterday is in the tomb and today is the life
that you have got. As you are working hard today to secure
tomorrow, it should always be at the back of your mind that tomorrow is just a
possibility. So you cannot engage in the
thoughts of tomorrow at the detriment of savoring the pleasant things of today.
Enjoying life in the moment involves believing that today is your real life and
the future hopes and dream is a visionary image because it is possible for the
future to arrive and you have just been absent. You have got to understand that
the future is a possibility. Today is the real future; it is the future you
expected yesterday. It is good and best anyway to plan for tomorrow. But live
each day very well per time! It is what you do today that determines
everything. So take a break from the rat race and enjoy the moment. Let me
share a few things with you that you have got to do to enjoy the moment while
you eye the future.
1. - Save and invest for the future, but keep some for now. Don’t breakdown before
breakthrough. Enjoy now, stop saving everything for tomorrow, you must have
some little to do with.
2. - Take time to explore your immediate affordable now because it will come a
time where you will be bigger than those things. I heard a story of an actress who said
one of the biggest things she misses about being an ordinary day to day person
is that she now unable to go to the roadside to get “boli” from the woman who
sells roasted plantain.
3. - Attend to your health wisely now and do not expend your body and health unnecessarily because when the future arrives
nature may have come calling. You do not want to arrive in the future a sick
and unhealthy man!
Take a moment to enjoy the present. Remember today is the future you hoped
for yesterday. Why not make the best of today. In doing that, enjoy the moment because
your best days are always ahead of you but remember that your best moment is
the one you are in now. Enjoy it!
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Yours Sincerely
Paul Amusa
