Right Now
Last week I was looking out over the vast expanse of the ocean and I was thinking about some of the problems in my life. Some stuff from the past, some stuff about my children and some generally unsettled stuff was the entirety of my thoughts.
The thoughts started out as just simple musings on life and before long they deepened into full blown dark clouds. How could I help my daughter? How could I stay out of the rut of daily living? How could I make a difference for those I love? A cascade of other thoughts came to join those and I was lost in the land of “Questions Without Answers”.
I don’t know how long I was lost but all of a sudden I was back in the present. I looked around at the water and the sunshine and the more present I became the faster the problems retreated. I knew they would never disappear but like clouds parting after a dark storm, there was increasing light.
In the next moment came one of those rare occurrences, the long sought after AHA! moment. Suddenly and without any conscious prompting by me, across my mind came the words – “RIGHT NOW IT’S GOOD!”. And it was!
Right now my problems were still there BUT there was no immediate crisis. Right now I was healthy and functioning. Right now there may be dark clouds on the horizon but they were not blocking the light from me right now. Right now it really was good!
Suddenly I thought about how many good moments in my life were totally eclipsed by by my thoughts of things unrelated to that moment. I was standing in the beautiful sunshine looking at the beautiful ocean and I might as well have been in a dark dungeon because I experienced none of the beauty around me. How many times had I done this???
I soon realized that by repeating “Right Now It’s Good” to myself” I was transported to the present reality very quickly and 99% of the time it really was good. I’ve always worked at staying in the present and this little powerhouse of a phrase got me there faster than ever.
I’m not PollyAnn-ish enough to believe that there will only be good times every time I repeat this to myself. There will always be times when Right Now is terrible but there is far, far fewer times than I ever imagined. Most of the time when the present seems terrible it has nothing to do with the present moment. It’s all about dark thoughts of the past or dark thoughts about the future.
I share this with you today so that you too can know and see your present moment for hopefully being better than your current thinking. Right Now It’s Good!
…always counting that the worst will happen, because it may happen. To these I say How much pain have cost us the evils which have never happened!”
Thomas Jefferson, Letter to John Adams, Apr. 8, 1816
“I’ve had a lot of worries in my life, most of which never happened.” -Mark Twain
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