May you live everyday of your life

I wanted to share with you a wonderful essay I found that was inspirational to me.  Sometimes I feel that as writers we tend to have a love affair with the past.  That beautiful time where all was right with the world and the evils have long been forgotten.  The problem with living in the past is you dont really live at all.  You daydream.  You yearn for a time that was never really there, only in your imagination.  So I ask you, my readers, to take an adventure with me.  One that requires intentional living, discovering the beauty that surround you simply by opening your eyes  and your heart.  I ask that you LIVE EVERYDAY OF YOUR LIFE.


My Dear,

If I could wish upon you one thing it would be this:

MAY YOU LIVE EVERY DAY OF YOUR LIFE.

May you not dwell in the past.  Whatever the past was, it's gone.  Leave it behind.

May you not dwell in the future.  Thinking of that which you shall do.  Because, before you realize it, you shan't.  The problem with dwelling in the future is that it's perfect.  Terribly so!  In the future you are happy, beautiful, in love, famous, rich, successful....somehow.  And it is this somehow that will ruin you.  Erase "Tomorrow I'll" from your vocabulary instantly I say.  Because tomorrow will never come.  Now is here however, and patiently waiting.

May you actually live!  Embrace the day at hand.  Live in the now.  Because it is eternal and unbound.  The now doesn't recognize yesterday's failures, or tomorrow's successes.  And thus is truly unchained.  And and unchained mind flies.

Live in the now, and you shall sprout wings. 



                                                                                    Jonathan Swift