Today I sat in silence with my eyes closed, focussing on every breath I took and after quite a long time I experienced peace.
I do not always take out time to sit like this and just be.
But today, I felt the need to hold on to myself because I could sense myself slipping away somewhere, to a place so far where everything is there but the truth.
All our lives we strive every day to build a life that fits in our definition of perfect, often forgetting to live in the moment.
“To live in the moment” is not as simple as it sounds, especially in the era we are living in, where, we can’t even eat our food the moment it is served without showing its perfect picture to the world. Almost everyone does that!
I can bet over it that most of the things we do on a daily basis, we aren’t enjoying or doing them mindfully.
We have hundreds of conversations in our head with the people we would meet or think about what we could have said to a person, while taking a shower. Imagine, we can’t even enjoy our own time by being in present, at a place where there is no chance of anybody’s intervention unless you want it!
We are so occupied dreaming about the future and thinking about the past that we often forget that both the past and the future are more or less like a dream, its unreal.
I never believed in the notion that “This is the one life we have got”.
I rather believe that every day we get a new life to live and with everyday passing we are reaching closer to death.
So how many days of all the days you have lived up until now, have you lived in the moment? Ask yourself, when was the last time when you were not busy in improving the past in your head or contemplating your future?
From the time we wake up to the time we go to the bed, we keep dwelling in the past, that will never come again or thinking about the future, that has no certainty. We totally forget the ultimate truth that there is, the “Present”.
The past one and a half year has been a roller coaster ride for me. I spent every day waking up and thinking about what could have been done or what would happen and ended up going to the bed having almost the same thoughts every day, until a few days back, where my life took a major turn. I learned how the time I spent in thinking was nothing but a waste because I realized whatever is happening in and around our lives has a bigger purpose that we might not be able to appreciate but time reveals everything.
Having realized this, I sat in silence with my eyes closed and then I experienced peace, when I just focussed on nothing but the present moment.
Remember, the only reality is this moment that we are living and to live and be in this moment and to do what is right for this moment is the most righteous thing to do and probably the best thing you can do for yourself.
So do not think about the future, and do not hold on to the past, what is gone was meant to be gone. This day today is the only reality you have, everything else is an illusion.
The present is the only truth that there is,
Its the only beauty that you need to know;
Enjoy every moment that you are blessed to live,
The present is the time in which you grow!