Wake up! If you knew for certain you had a terminal illness–if you had little time left to live–you would waste precious little of it! Well, I’m telling you…you do have a terminal illness: It’s called birth. You don’t have more than a few years left. No one does! So be happy now, without reason–or you will never be at all." – Dan Millman
I am a woman of words and after reading these, they resonated with me big time. I had a friend tell me a few years ago that her husband would look at their daughter and say how happy he was and how sad he was at the same time. Looking at his young child reminded him how beautiful youth is and also reminded him of his own mortality. I used to tell her he was extremely morbid, but he had a point as does the above quote.
There are no guarantees in life except that it will pass you by if you do not seize your moments. All we have are 0ur present moments and for the ego, memories of past moments. Living in the present and fearlessly is my goal for the rest of the year. 2008 has not been anything like I expected. NOTHING like I expected and this is the first time I surrendered to not knowing what was going to happen in ever situation of my life so that I can experience everything I am suppose to. It is an adventure, exciting and ok not knowing. It is not the how that I am concerned with anymore. It is simply being in the now that interest me.
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