Over the weekend our family attended a memorial service for our friend Paul, age 45 who passed away in January after a valiant and hard-fought struggle against esophageal cancer.   Over 200 people attended the service to pay respects to Paul and his family.

While the service was undeniably heart-wrenching and sad, it was also hopeful and filled with promise.   At one point the minister referred to how people discuss a life cut short, in it’s prime, and how common it is to mourn the “what could have beens” of a person’s life.  The simpleness of this  really struck me.

Many of us are stuck in the future (there are also some caught in the web of the past but that’s a different post altogether).  They shove the “right now” into the background, push past the “in the moment” and bulldoze ahead.   I find myself doing that as well.  Looking ahead to my to-do list, focusing on what I have to do on Wednesday, or this weekend or over the summer without realizing it’s only Monday and March!

Living in the moment is a popular catch-phrase, kind of New-Agey.  But its message is one that we can all live with.

While right now I’m sitting here enjoying typing my post, I do have to plan for my day because let’s face it, we all have places to be, people to get to other places, meals to prepare and lives to live.  But for the moment, I’m just sitting here, writing my post and taking pleasure in the right now.   Remember, there is no guarantee for the future.  The future could never come so may as well enjoy the ” right now”.  Think about it.

Now go run!

Keli 🙂