This is your life now

Sometimes it is good to take a clear-eyed look at where you find yourself in life. How do you feel when you think about where your life is now, in this moment?

This is your life now. However you might feel about your life in this moment, it is your life. Your life as it is, right now.

This is your life now. What you think, feel, hear, see or taste (depending on which senses you are lucky enough to possess, and which of these are in play) at this moment is your life as it is, right now.

This is your life now. You are fortunate to be here, now. The chances against pretty much anything in this world existing are considerable. The web of chance, coincidence, struggle and dumb luck that has lead anything and everything, anybody and everybody to be what, where and who they are is extraordinary. The range of forces that could and can prevent anything and anyone existing is immense.

This is your life now. This moment is your life as it is, now. What came before this moment is gone. What comes after this moment remains to be seen.

This is your life now. Your past might cast a long shadow, one that colours, shapes or distorts your perception and experience of each and every passing moment. Or you might live in or for the future, working, planning or daydreaming in the service of a moment that is to come (or that might never come).

This is your life now. Everything around you did not exist at some point (whether it came into existence recently, or has been there since the dim and distant past). Everything around you will at some point not exist (whether in the near term or at some point in the far-flung realms of the distant future – and I hope for all of our sakes that it is the latter).

This is your life now. What do you want to do now? What do you want to do next? You might have your next step clear in your mind. Or you might not want to do anything at all. Doing nothing might be down to complacency, or it might be the result of a decision to do nothing. There are times when doing nothing is absolutely the right decision. There are times when it is absolutely the wrong decision. What you do or don’t do now might be critical in shaping what comes next.

This is your life now. It is your life and yours alone. It always has been your life. It always will be your life. You have it in your power, in your gift, to do with your life as you will, right in this moment, right now.

This is your life now.

May you be nothing but kind today, to others and to yourself.

May today be nothing but kind to you and yours.

IMAGES

• Floral photograph by MJCarty.
• Eucomis kuiflelie. 07-06-2023. (d.j.b) via Wikimedia Commons.
• Rugiada su vetro illuminata dal sole via Wikimedia Commons.