Living in the present

The present the gift that makes you happy and successful at work and in life - by Spencer Johnson. A book that was given to us before we joined Mu Sigma (my previous organization). After reading i realized how the book totally reflected about some of us who think about the happenings of the past and what could we do in the future but in the whole churn of things we almost forget that we are wasting the precious NOW that could actually be productive than the past and probably make things easier for the future. Having said is easy but doing that is not so much easy or fun. Behaving in a normal way with a person whom you have disliked throughout your life is not easy. Cooking the same dish which has come out not so well in the last 5 times tests self-confidence. Standing on the same stage, singing the same song for which you were thrown tomatoes, onions, eggs and verbal sarcasm puts a check on your morale.

Now this was one part of the story. Sharing with you some beautiful stories who are trying to live hard in the present knowing very much what it would be leading to. I asked a friend of mine 'Why are you staying in this relationship when you knew there was no future?. It is too early and I m sure you can come out of it easily if you try' (its always easy to say :)). She hit me back saying 'I can't be spoiling this wonderful time of my life thinking about what the future might look like though i know probably 90% of what it would be like'.

The other day I asked another friend 'Why are you drinking and smoking so hard - don't you see the cover. It says 'smoking kills', 'tobacco is carcinogenic'. All of the above, you are draining that lifesaver oxygen out of your brain' for which he replied 'I have seen N number of tobacco chewers and none of them have shown symptoms of oral tumors. Stop seeing ET's last pages and dont believe in the stupid statistics'. He was living in the present and there was no way I could undermine him. I felt there was some truth in what he said. An aunt nearby underwent a major tongue operation to get her tumor treated. She was a staunch vegetarian and had spent all her life eating healthy and exercising regularly.

May be thinking about the frightening incidents of the past, make us unhappy in the present and hamper our future. Adieu to people who can live completely in the present and eat their slices of the cake which present offers.