What matters today?
Today, as I
was leaning back, savouring my tea, I was observing how interesting it is that
so many human beings I am aware of, live their lives as if tomorrow is what
matters.
Let me explain.
The world
over, and as a general concept – as there are many exceptions, or in other
words, exceptions that I see as many because this exception is how I live and
therefore my common reflection – so, the world over, life is generally lived as
a pursuit. This pursuit is sometimes called a fight, sometimes called a ladder
or a mountain to climb, sometimes called a search or an aim to achieve. It is a
constant striving. An idea that somehow there is somewhere to get to, to arrive
at.
Thus, today
is just a building block for tomorrow. A passage. Something that needs to be
done in order to reach something else.
Which leads
me to mention dreams. That thing about “may all your dreams come true”. What is
this?
Again. Let
me explain.
My point of
view about dreams is simple: once one has a strong feeling about creating something
in their lives, for whatever purpose it may be, and follows that feeling and
its indications 100%, the dream is already a reality, every step of the way of
its unfolding. It really doesn’t matter what the outcome is. Because the outcome
rarely is what we imagined. So, the dream doesn’t necessarily come true, if
this means that it fits what was initially imagined. There are so many
different openings that present themselves along the way, if we are allowing
ourselves to flow with the synchronicities that come forth moment to moment,
that what does or does not occur depends largely on the circumstances in each new
now step and not on a supposed potential outcome.
It’s all
good and well to have vision. To have creative passion. What it becomes – that is
free. If we are willing to be bold enough to not want to control its trajectory
and humble enough to accept that what is happening is always aligned with whatever
we are vibrating into existence. Our frequency determines everything that
emanates forth into our world.
So, let’s
get back to the initial puzzling concept of living life as a pursuit. What happens
to today then?
In all
honesty, there is nothing else to live. Today is all there is. Now. Available.
And this is what provides every tomorrow. If there is a tomorrow.
What I mean
is: none of us know when we will die. And some are actually experiencing
terminal diseases. Still, it is unknown how long they will live. And once we
die – irrespective of the intrinsic knowingness that existence is endless and
therefore death does not really exist for us as beings, only as physical humans
– once we die, whatever we were living today is what will have mattered. The future
will have in that moment been entirely erased for the deceased.
So what
really matters today?
Even if you
are going through the shittiest experience – what matters about it, what is
there here for you to retain, choose, discard, change, embrace…?
What would you
like to enjoy today: busyness, quietness, joy, harmony, excitement, serenity, passion,
rush, anxiety, depression, rewinding, relaxing… Whatever it is that brings
peace, love and joy to your heart.
In my own
experience I have found that even when I am going through a rough patch, even in the
simplest terms – could be a very turbulent flight or boat ride for instance –
if I land fully in it, with no expectation of what comes next and no need to get out of it, just being
present to this that I am in now, everything settles down. It’s like becoming
the eye of a storm. Correction: it is literally becoming the eye of the storm.
Notice that the eye does not try to cross the storm. It stays. The storm just
is. Until it isn’t. And then the eye is no longer within the storm. It is all
there is. All there was. All there will be when another storm forms around it.
I often
remember: in what way can I honour the ones who have departed and can no longer
have the privilege of experiencing life? And in what way can I also honour the
ones that are ill or vacant to a point that they cannot be in life, at all?
Side note,
just to say that each experience is an experience in itself, which means that
being incapable of participating in life is an equally valid experience for
whatever purpose best serves the one having it.
Then again,
if I have the chance to live the most fulfilling life I can create for me,
here, now, today, in the simplest ways, in the most seemingly “insignificant”
gestures and moments that radiate so much joy, so much love, so much peaceful contentedness,
gratitude and grace, why would I not be this fully? Why would I be focusing on what
seems to be wrong with the world, with the people, with politics, with whatever
rather than live what I know to be possible, when my heart is not tainted with
fear, fight and rage?
Why would I
be giving my attention, which means my creative energy, to judgement about
wrong or right, instead of just living what brings balance to my system? Which
in turn creates balance at a much larger scale… But without even having to focus
on the effect this has – why would I forego this gift that is entirely mine to
choose, to live, to receive and to offer, now, today, for the sake of a tomorrow
I don’t know whether I will get to experience?
Why would I
wait for the new year to make resolutions that I know are productive and would
like to bring forth right away, otherwise I would not even envision them as
possibilities?
Yes, there
are some long-term decisions we all have to make. And once we have made them,
again, what remains is still only today. Whether we for instance get to master
the cello during the next year, or travel to the Fidji Islands, or create a
cure for cancer – or whether we don’t, we will only ever have lived each today
as it presents itself. Not one moment earlier. Not one moment later.
Say it, do
it, live it, enjoy it. In honour and gratitude. Today.
This is my heartfelt
new year celebration with ya’all.
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