May 6, 2008...9:29 pm
Being in the Now
I have often used the expression “when you feel pain, at least you know you are alive”. I usually pull it out when a friend is going through some sort of devistating breakup, where she’s trying to balance the alcohol to pill ratio so she can stop feeling but not kill herself. When she’s not wanting to be “Present” for her emotional reality. There’s a lot of talk about being “Now” and “Present” floating around in the ethers at the moment. I think it’s an interesting idea that we are anytime but Now.
I know that in the Past, and in the Present, I have felt like escaping my Now…but that never works. Now is always Now and I am always in it. I can distract myself somewhat by looking ahead or thinking about other things, but Now is always Now and in my face….being Now it would have to be. The nice then about Now is that eventually it becomes Then. I like Then. The lessons have been learned and you realize just how Present you were Then, even if you looked ahead or day dreamed about your new Now when it was still just a possibility.
This is the other thing I don’t get, how do you manifest when you are in the Now. Manifestation is visualizing the future as if it is the Now, or even the Then. So if you day dream in such a way that your Now becomes what you saw before, is that time travel? Is seeing ahead time travel? So many things to wonder about…so little Now.
I am using this blog right now to escape my Now. It’s not working very well, I am still Now. I am philisophical about it though, at least I know I am alive.
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