JUST REALIZED #4- I should start living in the moment

I might be a hypocrite for this one!! Living in the moment, yaani letting go of the past and not worrying about the future. The only thing that has made me come into this realization is death. I could be worrying about my finals and maybe i won’t even make it then, Insha'Allah i do but you get the point. I'm so stuck up on what I did yesterday or what I should have done last month that it has been eating me up (labda ni minyoo) but I hope you get the point. It’s exhausting to live in the past and in the future, I never thought of living in the present. To be quite honest it seems boring and awkward but i have to try it. Don’t get me wrong though.

Sometimes it's beneficial to consider the past and the future.

Where would we be if we didn't reflect on and learn from our past accomplishments and failures? If we didn't make future plans or get ready for what is ahead, where would we be?

We probably wouldn't be in a good place in any scenario.

It's important to think about the past and the future from time to time in order to live a healthy existence

, but it's unusual that we don't think about them enough. Instead, our issue is usually that we dwell on them too intensively or even excessively. It's a bad habit!!

Chaya, my baby sister, she is only 9 months old and she is already teaching me the importance of living in the moment, kind of jealous of her not gonna lie. It's so smooth how she does it, it's unconscious. I want to be able to live in the moment but be able to plan for the future without fear, panic or getting too involved in the future. ‘What you do now determines your

future!’ well that’s right but to a certain extent its bullshit. I am currently 17. I'm already worried about the next chapter of my life but I'm right in the middle of what I used to look forward to. I’m always living in the future and the past and I find it crazy. The only time I live in the moment is when I'm devouring candy and sweets.

I have so many photos of my friends and family, they are moments I would like to relive just so that I could be in the moment. I want to live in the moment because that's the only thing we have in life, moments in time, which are not reversible. I don’t want to care about what happened 5 minutes ago or a month ago, I want to live for today. I believe in God and I believe that what God can give he can take away in a flash of a second, so I don't want to waste anymore seconds. I know from experience that if something good has been going on in your life you need to experience a little bit of rain sometimes, but after the rainy season there is fresh crops, the sun shines better and there is a rainbow. I want to be happy with the small things in life, i want to experience peace for the first time in my conscious life, i know i was peaceful when i was Chaya’s age and i also know i’ve not been peaceful because i’ve been living in anger because of the past and i’ve been living in fear because of the future.

October of 2022, just last year, I had a situation that made me realize nothing really matters. Everything I had been worried about, they didn’t really matter, what mattered at that time was me. My health. I needed to be awake, I was in a state of prolonged loss of consciousness. It was for a few hours though. But in those few hours nothing and no one else matter

ed. It was present me vs present me. After I regained consciousness I was back to living in the past and the future again. I regret this now but it happened. I didn’t take time to acknowledge the fact that i was awake, the fact that i had no serious organic damages, none of that instead i was stuck on what i shouldn’t have done and what was going to happen next.

Here is how i’ll try living in the moment

(i’m high-key promising myself to do this ones )

This is probably the shadiest thing I'll ever do, but I've decided to forgive all of my past wrongs and move on without holding grudges against anyone. Although they caused the hurt, I am responsible for letting it affect my emotions today, so I am allowing myself to let go and opting to be in the now.

There are countless possibilities every day! I'll start it off by grinning. Every morning, I have power over my attitude and strive to keep it upbeat and enthusiastic. I'll be deliberate about it and perhaps seek to do it every day without even recognizing it.

Dream big. Future-oriented planning should be made. But the first step to achieving your goals tomorrow is always working hard today. I won't permit daydreaming to take the place of present-day living. Future-focused thinking is only useful in conjunction with current actions.

The majority of yesterday's ideas are no longer valid today because of how quickly our environment is evolving. I won't fall into the trap of thinking, "But that's how I've always done it." The answers from yesterday are not the solutions from today, and they are certainly not the solutions from tomorrow.

Here is how we can try living in the moment

(these ones are a bit hard for me so i’m not promising myself anything but you can try :)

In other words, when you get rid of items that are associated with the past, you may cease living in it. Once the past is no longer a factor, you may begin to live in the present. Though it's on this list because it's so difficult, how can you ever let go of memories?

If you are still talking about yesterday, you haven't done too much today. There is still plenty of time to build on earlier victories, create new memories, and achieve new successes for future-you. In the future, you'll cherish your recollections of today. To be honest, this one is also difficult, yet achieving something today will be an accomplishment of yesterday when it reaches tomorrow. Yeah, let's not overthink it :/

If you focus too much on tomorrow, you won't be able to truly enjoy today. Recognize that whether you worry about tomorrow or not, it will still happen. And since worrying has never helped anyone, focus your attention in another direction. See why it's challenging right now?

You are imprisoned in your life by addictions. They prevent you from leading an entirely free life and take your attention away from the present. Find assistance. Follow the steps. and eliminate their hold on your life. This one is arguably attainable; the difficulty of quitting an addiction is offset by its simplicity once accomplished. Give yourself permission to be addiction-free in the moment.

Living in the present moment entails putting the past and the future behind you and letting go of your worries and fears. It entails savoring the present and living in the moment. Living in the past or the future deprives you of both the present-day pleasures and the experience of genuinely living. The current moment is the only moment that matters.

I urge everyone who reads this blog article, including myself, to embrace the present. Kwani ni Kesho?